Automata & Robotics

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Mechanical beings.

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This guy is just unbelievably talented. I love his work and have a couple of his vinyl models (the cenobites.)

Thomas Kuntz

Here is a sample of his work.  You can watch more on his page above.

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The House of Automata

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Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum

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This is quite interesting-

Machines in the Garden

Example-

Italian Automaton (The Devil), carved in wood, 15th and 16th centuries, from the Wunderkammer owned by Ludovico Settala. It could "roll its eyes and move its tongue, emit a noise and spit smoke from the mouth."

Above ^ some mechanical devils depicted in drawings by fifteenth-century engineer, Giovanni Fontana.

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From the most esteemed site on the net, Retronaut, I introduce 1939's-

(hahaha!  Radio Man has moobs! :)  Or are they supposed to be abs?)