New Scientist Technology Blog: A programmable robot from 60 AD

Who built the first programmable robot? It's almost impossible to tell, and most people would put good money on Leonardo da Vinci. But now Noel Sharkey, a computer scientist at the University of Sheffield, UK, has traced the technology way back to ancient Alexandria. In about 60 AD, a Greek engineer called Hero constructed a three-wheeled cart that could carry a group of automata to the front of a

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確かにプログラミングできてる。

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「古代ギリシャのロボット」動画あり。シンプルな構造だ。

[kdaiba]

頭のいい人は違うね

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