Concepts of robotics have been floating around the human consciousness since 3500 BCE. Centuries before the term “robot” (literally, “forced labor” in Czech) was coined, philosophers, engineers, and ...

The concept of artificial intelligence extends to antiquity, when Hephaestus, the Greek god of craftsmen and artisans, built metal automatons to assist him, or when Aphrodite brought Pygmalion’s ivory ...

Although the 18th and early 19th century might be described as the golden era of automatons – all the more so as clockwork was then considered an effective metaphor for the workings of the human body ...