It’s fitting that the European renaissance of automata, or kinetic sculptures designed to mimic human movement, began with a clockmaker—like their timekeeping counterparts, automata operate on cue, ...

Keith Newstead was one of the leading makers of automata, animated sculptures of people and animals that appear to have a life of their own. Whether working on a small individual piece or large and ...

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Paul Spooner specialises in a field known as 'mechanical automata'. He makes elaborate constructions from various materials - with a strong preference for wood - as much for the joy of making them, as ...

The word automat is the Latinization of the Greek word αὐτόματον, which means acting of one’s own will. It is more often used to describe moving machines, especially those made to resemble human or ...

This mechanical galleon is in fact an elaborate, automated clock. Its mechanism no longer works but originally it would have played music, fired its cannons and trundled across the table at imperial ...

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