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July 9, 2012 06:19 pm GMT

The Writer By Jaquet Droz: Getting to Know an Over 200 Year Old Android

Europe in the mid to late 18th century was not as backwards as some people may believe. In fact, much of the developed world was at a point of incredible intellectual advancement. In Switzerland, for example, a man named Jaquet Droz and his team were building real, honest-to-HAL robots. They didn't call them that back then, but these automaton androids were incredibly advanced even by today's standards.

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