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Friday, January 1, 2016

Ancient Greek Robotic Technologies on Display

On the first floor of the Herakleidon Museum Annex on Apostolou Pavlou Street in central Athens there is an automatic maid that looks like it came out of Star Trek. Surprisingly, it was made hundreds of years ago by Philon of Byzantium in the 3rd century BC. This automatic-robotic maid was one of the leading “technologies”


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