About this episode

This episode explores the fascinating mechanics and history of Maillardet's Automaton, a 200-year-old mechanical doll that creates drawings and poems.

Around the year 1800, Swiss clockmaker Henri Maillardet created a mechanical doll that moves like a person as it produces drawings and poems with a pen on paper -- it's programmed for seven in total, without having any electrical parts. Learn how it and other automata work in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://science.howstuffworks.com/maillardets-automaton.htm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Topics covered

• automata
• mechanical dolls
• history of technology
• artificial intelligence
• drawing machines

Keywords

• Maillardet's Automaton
• mechanical doll
• Henri Maillardet
• automata
• drawing machine
• history of technology

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