Robots guarded Buddha's relics in a legend of ancient India
- Written by Adrienne Mayor, Research Scholar, Classics and History and Philosophy of Science, Stanford University
Two small figures guard the table holding the Buddha's relics. Are they spearmen, or robots?British Museum, CC BY-NC-SAAs early as Homer, more than 2,500 years ago, Greek mythology explored the idea of automatons and self-moving devices. By the third century B.C., engineers in Hellenistic Alexandria, in Egypt, were building real mechanical robots a...
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