... automatons became more popular as toys for the very rich. They were made to look and move like humans or small animals. Automatons like "The Pretty Musician", built around 1890, were able to turn their head from side to side while playing an instrument with their hands and keeping time with their feet. However, it is literature where human kinds vivid imagination has often ... reflected our fascination with the idea of creating artificial life. In 1818, Mary Shelly ... wrote Frankenstein, a story about the construction of a human-like creature. For Shelly, a robot looked like man but h...

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