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The steam-powered flying pigeon
of Archytas
This robot was believed to be a
Knight - although no concept drawings have ever been discovered
amongst Da Vinci’s works - and
was capable of rudimentary movements: sitting down; standing up
and pulling its visor down amongst
others.2
However, if we are to associate the
term “robot” with a more modern
day outlook, i.e. “especially one pro5
Model of Leonardo’s robot with
inner workings, as displayed in
Berlin
grammable by a computer”, then a
case can be made for the first ever
robot being a computer-aided manufacturing device made by MIT’s
Servomechanisms
Laboratory.
Through a language known as