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An animatronic is a mechatronic puppet controlled electronically by machine to move in a fluent way. [1] They are a modern variant of the automaton and are often used for the portrayal of characters in films, video games and in theme park attractions. Animatronics are a multidisciplinary field integrating puppetry, anatomy and mechatronics.
The title of timed automaton declares that the automaton changes states at a set rate, which for clocks is 1 state change every second. Clock automata only takes as input the time displayed by the previous state. The automata uses this input to produce the next state, a display of time 1 second later than the previous.
The term "android" appears in US patents as early as 1863 in reference to miniature human-like toy automatons. [9] The term android was used in a more modern sense by the French author Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam in his work Tomorrow's Eve (1886), featuring an artificial humanoid robot named Hadaly. [3]
Simpler automated machines are called automatons, like animatronics, often made to resemble humans or animals. Humanoid robots that resemble humans esthetically, possibly even organically, are called androids , while android can be shortened to droid , referring to robots with a broader likeness.
His programmable "castle clock" also featured five musician automata which automatically played music when moved by levers operated by a hidden camshaft attached to a water wheel. [37] 1495 Leonardo's robot: Leonardo da Vinci designs a humanoid automaton clad in a suit of knight's armor and operated by pulleys and cables. [7] 1738 The Flute Player
In 'Home Automation' a family of lifesize aluminum animatronic crash test dummies musically self-destruct, as they watch color code threat alerts on their projected home TV. The robot family's heads finally ignite into circuit-breaking flames. [15] Captured! by Robots is a touring band led by Jay Vance, along with several animatronic bandmates ...
Advertising poster for the presentation of Vaucanson's three automatons in Strasbourg in 1746. The Vaucanson Automat Flute Player is an android automaton playing the transverse flute, designed and produced by Jacques de Vaucanson and presented to the public in 1738. It faithfully recreates the playing of a flautist on an instrument identical to ...
The automaton is presented to King Mu of Zhou by its inventor, but it offends the king by winking at court ladies and trying to flirt with them, so the inventor disassembles it to show the court that it is a machine. The king sees that it has artificial analogues of human organs, which are made of leather, wood, glue, and paint, and each ...