Robots may seem like a completely modern phenomenon, but the idea of creating artificial beings is by no means new. In this video we’ll look at the ancient predecessors of our modern robots, and see their development from a concept in mythology, to the earliest simple devices, and finally to full-fledged self-moving statues. → CLIPS USED Metropolis (1927) Sophia the Robot Gives a Glimpse of What's to Come in 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPhPrnw4QKk Do You Love Me? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw Demonstration of David Roentgen's Automaton of Queen Marie Antoinette, The Dulcimer Player https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nITEU4fsqCU Mechanical Marvels—Automaton: Walking Monk Figure, 1550 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiVKnlXcDDg Jason and the Argonauts (1963) Therapaenis - Servant by Heron and Filo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FuUx1zIGk8 Heron’s moving automaton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFrFi_Pq7vU Justus Willberg plays the Hydraulis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZey_H8qmQA Ancient Discoveries (2003-2009) Home built Aeolipile Hero steam engine running. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyFMexBTpLs The hydraulic automaton of the «chirping birds» https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvsk7SUuq7Q Mechanical Marvels—Automaton: Miraculous Writing Machine, 1760 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLUoDSNDj4U → MUSIC Relaxing Roman Music - Aetas Romana By: Adrian von Ziegler Fantasy: Lament for a Warrior's Soul By: Random Mind Desert Caravan By: Aaron Kenny Celtic Music - Fairy Tale By: Adrian von Ziegler Roman Music - Convivium By: Adrian von Ziegler Chopin Nocturnes, Op. 48 By: Luke Faulkner (musopen.org) Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/ (requested format) → SOURCES https://bradleysmp.weebly.com/uploads/5/2/5/6/52565519/robots_moving_statues_and_automata.pdf https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/handle/2123/15398/bur_tcd_thesis.pdf;jsessionid=0021D79BEB8B8FA45396618CFE5D9CD1?sequence=1 https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/187845826.pdf https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/685672 https://www.academia.edu/40650941/The_Grand_Procession_Galatersieg_and_Ptolemaic_Kingship https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02546867/document https://nereus.mech.ntua.gr/Documents/pdf_ps/heron.pdf