Ancient India and a Legend of Automatons Guarding Buddha’s Relics
Stories passed down from the ancient world tell of self-powered machines able to move on their own. As early as Homer, more than 2,500 years ago, Greek mythology explored the idea of automatons and self-moving devices. By the third century B.C., engineers in Hellenistic Alexandria, in Egypt, were building real mechanical robots and machines. And such science[…]