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This is actually one of three automata that Droz made at his peak, and the other two are equally just as jaw-dropping. One draws pictures and the other manually plays a specially built organ instrument.
More importantly, he also made beautiful, pornographic, animated pocket watches.
Awesome!.. But they are dramatising this way too much. I remember when BBC documentaries used to be quite information-dense and levelheaded
Back a crucial step for building such things wasn't "make sure it can kill."
Back when, I mean.