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Summary: The earliest robot was built in the 1770s by a Swiss watchmaker named Jack Ross, who made an automaton that wrote to help advertise his wrist watch. Visit a Swiss museum to see the first robots ever made, some of which played instruments, with information from an electrical and computer engineering professor in this free video on robots.
Dr. Kazuhiko Kawamura is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and management of technology in Nashville, Tenn., and he is also the director of the Center for Intelligent...read more
"Humans always have a fascination for automated machines and one of the earliest functional robots made in the world were in the 1770's. This is the robot called Automaton made by a Swiss watch maker Jack Ross and he made this robot to advertise his wrist watch. The only thing this robot does is to write. He also made two dolls. One plays Oga and the other plays the flute and if you go to a museum in Switzerland you can still see them play although they are not original but you can see how they work."
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