The Writer — A Robot From 1774


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A Swiss watchmaker built a robot in 1774 that writes with a real quill and ink, powered by 6,000 tiny gears and zero electricity. Pierre Jaquet-Droz’s ‘The Writer’ could program any 40-character message. The most advanced automaton of the Enlightenment.


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