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--- art_robots [2009-01-14 10:35] – davegriffiths
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 ======An Art Robots Timeline======
-The earliest instances of robotics were all for artistic reasons, and were usually in the form of automatons, and generally for theatrical and musical use.
 ======Era of magic, weights and pulleys======
+The earliest instances of robotics all seem to have been created for artistic reasons, and were usually in the form of automatons, generally for theatrical and musical use.
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-**"On Automatic Theaters, On Pneumatics, and on Mechanics"**: Hero of Alexandria, probably a continuation of Philo of Byzantium's work ,
+**Hero of Alexandria** (known as Michanikos, the Machine Man) wrote "On Automatic Theaters, On Pneumatics, and on Mechanics, probably a continuation of Philo of Byzantium's work, and constructed an automaton theatre which was powered by weights and slowly emptying containers of sand.
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+Scene 1 from Nauplius, on Hero's Automaton Theater
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_of_Alexandria
+  * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_of_Alexandria
+  * http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/HeronAlexandria2.htm
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