Medieval robots: How al-Jazari's mechanical marvels have been resurrected in Istanbul |... - 0 views
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the history of automation goes back some 900 years, when Ismail al-Jazari, a Muslim scholar, invented the first robotics, water clocks and other mechanical devices.
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his outstanding machines have now been recreated for The Magnificent Machines of al-Jazari, an exhibition at the UNIQ Expo in Istanbul
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his masterwork, The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices,
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