Thursday, November 14, 2013

240-year-old Writing Robot

What you will see next is the Writer, a robot constructed in the 1770s by the highly recognized Swiss watchmaker, Pierre Jaquet-Droz (1721-1790). Made out of almost 6000 elements, the Writer is a self-operating, programmable machine, effective at writing words and text using a quill pen.

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