ðAncient automata
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The concept ârobotâ originates from Czech writer Karel Äapek.
However, automata are common through history both in the real world and in stories.
Moving on to medieval Europe, the automata and artifice in stories merge with the concept of Natura artifex, inspiring the 17th-century notions of mechanical nature and clockwork-world, which have in turn contributed to our contemporary models of rationality, underlying the conceptualisation of current technologies.
