Historical robots

chess automaton hoax

18th-century automaton or mechanical toy

humanoid automaton designed by Leonardo da Vinci

traditional Japanese puppet

medieval invention by Al-Jazari

thumb|Sketch of a Unimate robot thumb|Unimate pouring coffee for a human, 1967 Unimate was the first industrial robot,

general-purpose mobile robot

large automaton featuring three life-sized mechanical birds

thumb|Replicas of Elektro the moto-man and his little dog Sparko

1739 automaton in the form of a duck

thumb|Makoto Nishimura (left of Gakutensoku) and one of his assistants, Bōji Nagao, pose with the robot.

three doll automata built between 1768 and 1774

robot