Ptolemy: "Pour me some wine." Automaton: "I'm afraid I can't do that, Ptolemy."
@PRH123
7 ай бұрын
Was Ptolemy driving that evening...?
@seenbefore2803
7 ай бұрын
Forget the space this is just the odyssey
@Mabufu381
6 ай бұрын
100AD - An Odyssey
@silesiaball9505
3 жыл бұрын
When you think about antiquity, robots never come to your mind. Great topic and a great video
@samos343guiltyspark
Жыл бұрын
Actually, that's one of the first things to come to my mind.
@seanwelch71
Жыл бұрын
It's one of those topics, ancient tinkerers, that are fascinating.
@lawfulbeneficiary1731
Жыл бұрын
It’s because most people are too busy looking at the fake history they feed the masses.
@nonamenoname1942
Жыл бұрын
THen you didn't watch Aladdin, it has the villain named Mechanicles.
@Mr.Death101
Жыл бұрын
Maybe when uneducated plebeians like you think about it but for most of us who are educated and work in this field we look into everything and a lot of things in antiquity were schemes and scams to scare people and make them follow a certain thing that's why a lot of statues would be hollow with bronze tubes so they could make noises from behind a curtain through the statue. Seriously don't say things if you're an idiot
@wallykimball8829
Жыл бұрын
The part about the statues of memnon where one of them made noise at dawn I read about years ago. The book that I read had the theory that there was a sort of hollow chamber inside the Statue and when the Sun would rise and shine on the statue, that change in temperature would trigger the sound, and he even talked about how they took the statue apart to see what made the noise, and they didn't find anything and when they put it back together it didn't make the noise anymore.
@ProfitPower13
Жыл бұрын
When steam tables run out of they make a very interesting pinging/tink sound when the metal expands. Science is tight!
@lyssanch3096
Жыл бұрын
They killed the statue :(
@Rickydiculus
Жыл бұрын
No, the turned the escalator into stairs.
@uncledoctor6920
Жыл бұрын
It's like Ork technology
@Rctdcttecededtef
Жыл бұрын
Maybe in the future they can fix it 🤷♂️
@cholst1
Жыл бұрын
On top of robots, I remember reading Hero of Alexandria some years back and being blown away by what is essentially a prototype piston engine(he calls it "The Fire Engine").
@hariszark7396
Жыл бұрын
The name is Heron.
@mymyrrah
Жыл бұрын
@@hariszark7396 the name Jared
@hariszark7396
Жыл бұрын
@@mymyrrah what?
@qwaeszrdxtfcgvbqwaeszrdxtf5733
Жыл бұрын
God foresaw the consequences of the industrial revolution and decided to stop that abomination before it was too late
@qwaeszrdxtfcgvbqwaeszrdxtf5733
Жыл бұрын
He failed the second time though
@mishkosimonovski23
Жыл бұрын
"The sorceress Media hypnotise Talos and made him pull out the nail" - ancient hacker made the robot sabotage his own fuel system.
@emjakos3548
Жыл бұрын
I've heard a version where Talos thinks that he is human, she just points out the nail, which Talos proptly pulled out.
@mishkosimonovski23
Жыл бұрын
@@emjakos3548 Might be, very interesting all together.
@Dkthearn
Жыл бұрын
Agreed it brings up that group that were notorious for creating assassin automatons in the guy who joined them and hid the scroll of their creation in his thigh of his leg and sewed it up so that he wouldn't get caught with it
@kdjoshi726
Жыл бұрын
Sounds legit
@suenoslucidos3899
Жыл бұрын
Greatest thing a scientist told me is that scientific innovation is a spectrum, it’s not linear. Things like robots, electricity, and scientific advancements have always existed, just not as widespread…
@Xbalanque84
Жыл бұрын
The greatest thing I ever heard from a scientist was that their experimental methods involved _chasing chickens up a treadmill._ Funny as that sounds, there was a reason to it. They were studying how powered flight may have evolved in non-avian dinosaurs and (eventually) birds, with chickens chosen as a proxy due to their general inability to fly. Said study found that once the substrate hits a particular angle, the chickens start flapping their wings, and this flapping motion actually aids them in climbing up steep sloping surfaces. This, in turn, has strong implications for how this flapping motion and reflex evolved in pre-avian dinosaurs, and suggests the ancestors of birds evolved this behavior to help them climb trees, with the combination of flapping motion and elongated arm feathers working together to give said dinosaurs extra lift while running up the trunk. From there, it was a relatively short leap to co-opt that reflex for gliding and flight. Said study has effectively put to bed the longstanding debate over whether avian flight started up from the ground or down from the trees.
@mortache
Жыл бұрын
Other than coal power, it was the standardization that revolutionized everything. Machines have existed for a long, long time but everything was hand crafted by an expert artisan and no two machine would actually be the same. So you couldn't mass produce even the measuring devices that were used to exponentially scale up the production. Now you can just go to a hardware store and buy some screws without thinking whether it would fit your machine as long as you know what size you need
@Sambroke
Жыл бұрын
Is this some ancient aliens nonsense
@mortache
Жыл бұрын
@@Sambroke lol no, literally the opposite. Conspiracy theorists say ancient people couldn't build these without aliens because before white people learned how to do it in 18th century, no one knew how to build anything. Basically people go from tribalism to feudalism to "civilized" like 18th century western Europe, and people elsewhere are apparently just behind that linear curve (lol). Of course humans have been smart for a bloody LONG time. If you go back 5000 years, you'll see a global trade network where someone in Iraq has access to goods from both India on one side, and maybe even imports metal ore from all the way to Brittany (or maybe it was Cornwall, I don't remember).
@OpasgegenLinks
Жыл бұрын
@@Sambroke Are you mentally handicapped?
@chrisfromsouthaus2735
Жыл бұрын
4:27 An automaton animated by mercury sounds very plausible. Since it is so dense, having a waterwheel style system to drive it's mechanics, but with mercury instead of water, sounds very reasonable. A reservoir of mercury' draining from the upper portion of the automaton, would provide a little over 13 times the gravitational potential energy than the equivalent volume of water.
@violettracey
Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@a.r.h9919
11 ай бұрын
Would have been interesting had history been some details towards other places to have some automatons fighting against other armies in ancient Greece
@Titantitan001
Жыл бұрын
“There is nothing new under the sun” I truly believe that.
@ologhai8559
Жыл бұрын
yeah, the best part is when archeologist discovered 3D printer in Egypt 😂
@Toshiro_Mifune
Жыл бұрын
@@ologhai8559 not exactly, but they have discovered prosthetics for limbs, the 3d printer of the time was a human craftsman, if you think about it, there is literally no idea that wasn't thought of or entertained as a possibility in prehistoric and ancient times. want to read about armadas in space using weapons of mass destruction? india's got you covered. want to read about aliens visiting from the stars and subjugating humans to mine precious metals they needed? check up on the Annunaki. There is nothing new, we're just entering an era of enough understanding of our surroundings to try and achieve most of the stuff ancient people dreamed about.
@jennimoto7237
8 ай бұрын
Yup. ❤
@greg_4201
6 ай бұрын
I dunno.... I think society's wealthiest scumbags openly discussing reducing the potency of the sun and having mosquitos infected with manmade population reduction agents to pass on to the public, having already poisoned the skies for decades, to literally fooling most people into thinking there's an impossible 'viral' pandemic to cover an economic reset/wealth transfer and teaching little boys in school to chop off their parts and become little girls and prosecuting parents for disagreeing and having the public just passively tolerate all this and comply is all quite new..... lol
@SG-js2qn
Жыл бұрын
One aspect of humanoid automata not mentioned here is that even in ancient times there were replacement limbs. Obviously they were not powered, but still they were crafted with the idea of mimicking normal human limbs and movement. While the poor might have a peg leg at best, wealthier people may have had ornate replacement limbs with joints. The silver hand or arm of Nuada, for instance, was probably an extrapolation of what a replacement limb might be if it was made by the gods.
@semi-useful5178
Жыл бұрын
A certain Gotz comes to mind with his Iron Hand.
@angr3819
Жыл бұрын
Thank you
@a.r.h9919
11 ай бұрын
@@semi-useful5178the real life guts whom Miura claimed did not knew when writing berserk
@semi-useful5178
11 ай бұрын
@@a.r.h9919 Indeed
@ochoatv567
2 жыл бұрын
These mechanical creations are the backbones of our robots today is so cool seeing how technology was born
@Rctdcttecededtef
Жыл бұрын
If there is any take away it's this
@TransoceanicOutreach
Жыл бұрын
They really aren't, there is no connection between modern robots and these devices. These were religious gimmicks that served no useful purpose, and mechanically had no influence on later automata, as they were already forgotten for a thousand years or more.
@ls200076
Жыл бұрын
@@TransoceanicOutreach true
@Verårtu
Жыл бұрын
@@TransoceanicOutreach If it were to serve real purpose, what would happen today?
@el_equidistante
Жыл бұрын
@@TransoceanicOutreach you have no idea what you're talking about
@pater2771
3 жыл бұрын
I am abashed your channel is still experiencing such small numbers. I think it is only a matter of time until you will see the hundreds of thousand of views your videos are worthy of. Keep it up.
@papabird4425
Жыл бұрын
Dwemer technology is truly remarkable.
@tekanmecha2698
Жыл бұрын
Only the real will get this.
@papabird4425
Жыл бұрын
@@tekanmecha2698 consider yourself real, frendo
@5thdimension665
Жыл бұрын
I listened to 'secunda' again from the Skyrim soundtrack...pure nostalgia I highly recommend you check out the song again
@EuanWhitehead
Жыл бұрын
Ngl those dwemer centurions scared me the first time I encountered them
@techport1357
2 жыл бұрын
Amazing Video! The ancient world is so beautiful and full of ingenuity. Seeing what could be created in times so long ago and the significance they had is awe inspiring. As we age there are not many things that fill us with a child like wonder, your videos about the ancient world serve such a great purpose to me and many others. Keep up the good work!
@Fummy007
2 жыл бұрын
This documentary deserves more views.
@ConstantinoBGrek
Жыл бұрын
Amazing!!! One correction though, Ctesibius was credited for the creation of the water clock. The "Clepsydra" is a much older invention (probably from Egyptian origins) which was basically just a vase with an insertion for water to flow through. It's one of the first artifacts invented by men to measure time. But it relied on being refilled and the flow of the water wasn't constant. So it would have a much stronger flow when it was full and a weak flow when it was empty because of the water pressure. Ctesibius is credited of creating a water clock capable of having a constant flow which allowed him to implement much complex functions.
@insederec
6 ай бұрын
Things like this remind you these people were not advanced "for their time" nor were their creations impressive "for their time". This is just plain impressive.
@mad_quack
Жыл бұрын
To be honest I never knew that ancient robots (automatons) existed like this. I find this stuff so fascinating
@Dang3rMouSe
Жыл бұрын
It really makes you wonder just how further ahead we could of been technologically if we didn't have to rediscover so much. Also makes one wonder what we lost to time. Maybe we should look a little harder at ancient myths & legends for kernels of truths hinting at what might of been
@lawfulbeneficiary1731
Жыл бұрын
It has nothing to do with resdiscover the word is hidden in the past they had steam trains which naturally required no coal plants that grew to enormous lengths through frequency and also electric cars and scooters in the 19-20th century the list goes on.
@BolinFoto
Жыл бұрын
There was no need for steam engines or anything like that in the ancient world. The reason for that is spelled Slavery. There was no economic incentive to get a complicated and expensive machine that could pump water to irrigate a field or anything like that when you had slaves. Instead of paying hard erned money for a technician to do maintence and paying for spare parts and fuel all you needed was to toss the slaves some food and nothing more. That is why we neve needed anything like this untill the industrial revolution, because of cheap or even free labour. So the knowledge was never really lost it was just not needed.
@lawfulbeneficiary1731
Жыл бұрын
@@BolinFoto nope it was hidden because if what your saying was the case why didn’t they have it in 30s when people were working in the railway or for other purposes even until now people are still throwing coal in to power underground trains are you telling me the elite and the government just have dementia? don’t be so ridiculous they simply removed it because they can’t profit from it
@lawfulbeneficiary1731
Жыл бұрын
@@BolinFoto and I’m talking about the 19th-20th century..
@lawfulbeneficiary1731
Жыл бұрын
@@BolinFoto it has nothing to do with people using slaves as most of these technology advances didn’t require any or little to no effort so you saying they didn’t care about it because they had slaves is a weak excuse if you look across history most technology was made to advance society for example Crystal Palace which was originally a place that would go miles down and had the best plants/flowers everything you can think of and the interesting part is these plants would grow to ridiculous lengths not through water through frequency.. nowadays if you saw a 5ft lily pad and you would say it was made through frequency people would assume it’s new technology just like the false pretence that electric cars are new when they’ve been around since the 19th century... power stations for them tok the point is society is extremely far behind and it’s like every century they hide discovery’s from that century and circulate it another 100 years and the fools look at it like they’re even going somewhere
@bp9696
3 жыл бұрын
wow, this topic would never come to my mind. Great video as always!
@giulioluzzardi7632
6 ай бұрын
I think we should adopt Emperor Claudius' punishments to suppliers of "Faulty" goods and send some computer boffins to entertain the crowds in the Colloseum.
@annalieff-saxby568
Жыл бұрын
Am I alone in wanting a second part of this, taking us through the chess playing and musical automata? Also, there was a thing called "The Grand Cascade" displayed at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in the late 1700s and early 1800s which was a completely automated landscape in miniature with rivers, a watermill and a procession of horses and carriages traversing the scene. It was wildly popular, and people would visit the gardens several times, just to see it.
@Stellra52
Жыл бұрын
I second this and want a continuation! I'm very curious to see the elaborate pieces nobility had like in Russia and China, and the automated toys you sometimes saw in the Victorian era.
@MaticTheProto
Жыл бұрын
Sounds like the Miniaturwunderland today
@oldgrannywheels
Жыл бұрын
I thought this too and really hope he makes a video on these later automatons!
@eyecomeinpeace2707
Жыл бұрын
How I so much wish to travel back in time and stroll down those ancient Greek and Roman avenues and witness the automatons in action and observe the people living in that period. I always thought that era seemed very futuristic some how.
@mike79patton
Жыл бұрын
Great video! I didn't know how far back in time automaton-like devices actually go. The ingenuity of the ancients never ceases to amaze me.
@dongiv196
Жыл бұрын
If they could have automated rocks, rock smashing, brick making assembly lines...they surely would have. 🙂
@oldgrannywheels
Жыл бұрын
I really hope you makes a video on later automatons too! Thank you for these videos, I'm binging them now and will be recommending them to others for sure!
@cazwalt9013
3 жыл бұрын
Another reason to love greek history even more
@hackman669
Жыл бұрын
Glad Arabs preserved Classical tech for future generations.
@VergiliosSpatulas
Жыл бұрын
@@hackman669 Mesopotemians* Also you needn't have a snarky attitude to appreciate the evolution of technology, that's just cringe.
@luckyblockyoshi
Жыл бұрын
@@VergiliosSpatulas how was that snarky lol, he’s just glad that someone preserved the knowledge that was lost elsewhere (“Mesopotamians” and “Arabs” are two different things btw)
@magnorecinos6510
Жыл бұрын
Love for Greece 🇬🇷
@micahistory
3 жыл бұрын
last time I was this early, it was still antiquity
@K55365
Жыл бұрын
Byzantine and Sassanid emperors have been recorded exchanging automatas as gifts to each other.
@henrygrace138
Жыл бұрын
It;s crazy to think how close these societies were to ours before they crumbled, makes you wonder what the world would be like right now had their empires not crumbled
@e.l2771
2 жыл бұрын
I might be wrong but I think the snail in Athens was kind of supposed to be a insult as it had recently been conqerd. Their is a book about this which I found really interesting but don't remember the name. I kind of remember it describing how Pandora from the famous legend was made by the gods and programed in a similar way to how we might today describe a robot. Super interesting video 👍
@spigney4623
Жыл бұрын
Ive never seen Egyptian drawings of people from the front before! Is this not rare? 6:07
@EternaResplandiente
Жыл бұрын
I really admire the Ancient Greeks, they had steam engines and robots. This is soooo cool. Imagine if somehow they had invented photography.
@mivapusa
Жыл бұрын
Cannons, Robots and Computers, the ancient Greeks were _way_ ahead of the curve
@vivashvanbhushan3422
Жыл бұрын
Also in Ancient India there is mention of a 5000 year old empire using automated boars as target practice for princes. These machines are known as yantras.
@semi-useful5178
Жыл бұрын
Where can I read more about them?
@idzidz833
Жыл бұрын
I don't see anything online when looking up yantras. How else can I read about them?
@kevind4606
Жыл бұрын
@@semi-useful5178 I found an article which has a few paragraphs on them. First I ever heard of this, it is fascinating. It is on a website called quartz and was the 3rd search result when I looked up "ancient robot bulls India yantra." I would link it but I am not sure if that is acceptable.
@kevind4606
Жыл бұрын
@@semi-useful5178 If you search that term with boars instead of bulls (my mistake) a bunch of stuff pops up including what looks like some scientific research and /or papers on the subject.
@kdjoshi726
Жыл бұрын
Wasn't Kumbhkaran said to be a robot? And the vehicle on which Raavan used to travel & abducted seeta with the help of it? Idk I remember my dad saying it could be depicted as some kinda ancient helicopter
@maxtheawesome4255
Жыл бұрын
This was such an incredible video. Makes the mind wonder what other marvels they don't yet know of.
@joycekoch5746
Жыл бұрын
I think it is fascinating that during a 2017 dig in Greece an excavation of a ancient Greek Inn uncovered a vibrating bed that was activated by a dropping a Tetrobol into the slot.
@sentinel1877
3 жыл бұрын
I always look forward to your videos. Keep up the amazing work!
@davidoh14
9 ай бұрын
Fascinating. Thank you for your effort.
@saitamapreetsingh3057
Жыл бұрын
There is a warrior called 'Barbarik' in Mahabharata whom is said to be a robot (in our words) because he had a skull of metal and a brain indistinguishable from ours. It's written in hindu scriptures that he was not from our world. His head is in rajashthan (India) and we worship him in the name of Kathushyam. He was so powerful that it is said he could defeat everyone in Mahabharata in couple of seconds alone
@himanshukuanr7832
Жыл бұрын
In my pov , He might be a Drone telecasting the Mahabharata war and Sanjay doing commentary about the events in Hastinapur..
@harrison6082
Жыл бұрын
It's interesting how much of what we know about ancient robotics were mostly used for entertainment. I suspect we have tech today that's mostly used for entertainment but the majority of it's value is in other things. I think the Hoberman sphere and video games are a good 21st century example
@sizanogreen9900
2 жыл бұрын
19:52 That mood! Can we still do that with engineers/programmers today? no?
@zarathroxa
Жыл бұрын
there is a funny and interesting similarity between ancient agyptian tempels and animatronics in theme parks!
@Rctdcttecededtef
Жыл бұрын
Wow, that's very perceptive! Thanks
@sologemeni
Жыл бұрын
rewatched several times. best short documentary on automata out there
@lordadorable1140
Жыл бұрын
Whenever I see a video like this, my brain immediately makes me think about Mazinger Z. Not sure if it’s a good thing at this stage
@shitpost-o-matic7469
Жыл бұрын
Awesome, a fellow super robot fan!
@bossdog1480
Жыл бұрын
The Egyptians had a steam powered set of sliding doors that would 'magically' open after enough incantations.
@therearelotsandlotsofflowers
3 жыл бұрын
Very fascinating topic and great video as always. I love your content! ❤️
@sergioreyes298
8 ай бұрын
This is so extraordinary. To think that the ancients had such advanced knowledge and craftsmanship. Thank you for this extremely informative video. And thank you even more for NOT using AI to obtain images snd narration. So many youtubers have fallen into the laziness habit of using AI for everything and it makes thair videos look ridiculous and just dimb.
@harraldschmitt9113
Жыл бұрын
So, in short, ancient automata were powered by water, fire and pirates.
@Rctdcttecededtef
Жыл бұрын
Steampunk pirates? Treasure planet? 🤔
@harraldschmitt9113
Жыл бұрын
@@Rctdcttecededtef no, water fire and arrrr.
@robert18081995
Жыл бұрын
There should be a museum exhibition for the recreation of all automata mentioned in this video
@josephdanieljirehdimacali4418
Жыл бұрын
Show this to Sam Worthington & his going to have a stroke. For context reasons why the automaton owl had little role on 2 Clash of Titan films is because he threatened that he will not accept the Perceus role if they give more role to the owl. As he thought robots in Greek mythology are ridiculous. Hence why it was relegated to a cameo.
@JosephClarke-dd4zb
4 ай бұрын
Bubo the owl. And you have got tick tock from the return to oz.
@plumedesinge
Жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot for the video ! And thank you again for posting all the links 🙂
@MarcusHelius
Жыл бұрын
This channel is fantastic.
@happilyignorant
Жыл бұрын
You know, its interesting how its gone from godly legend to a project in a lab. Makes me think if you told someone from Antiquity about the living standards and technology of today, they'd mistake you for living as a god. Think about it, nowadays we can get cheap food and wine in abundance and air conditioning, meanwhile someone from this era would be in absolute awe. I love history, too bad I won't be around to see how we progress in the next 1000 years... Also knowing too well about the fate of the library of Alexandria still hurts to know
@el_equidistante
Жыл бұрын
no they wouldn't they probably would see us a pathetic species
@dudemp4
Жыл бұрын
@@el_equidistante if they saw twitter
@BigLeaves
Жыл бұрын
native people of america also created models of animals that mimicked their sounds when you fill them with water and tilt them back and forth
@themetroidprime
3 жыл бұрын
The Talos Principle amirite
@wyro1741
Жыл бұрын
Thanks - seeing the true colors and learning about that process … very informative … thank you for the education and enjoyment :)
@WanBon101
2 жыл бұрын
Very interesting topic. An unfortunate realization too is that the emperor who sent manufacturers to fight in the arena when the automata malfunctioned may have played a key part in conditioning many future generations to obsess over perfectionism or give up on their dreams far too early.
@restitvtororbis5330
Жыл бұрын
I want to find the source for that because, of basically all the emperors except Marcus Aurelius and maybe Antoninus Pius, Claudius (from all I've learned of him) is probably the third LEAST LIKELY emperor to have sentenced someone for that, and when it comes to him knowingly destroying knowledge and technology he is literally the least likely to have done it. Claudius literally wrote volumes of history books because a speaking disability made him the black sheep of the family so Augustus and tiberius barred him from a political career, so he pursued knowledge instead until he was thrust into power. Not to mention that he was renowned for both clemency and fair judgment. Basically i would believe this about the majority of emperors, but very specifically NOT CLAUDIUS. I wish i could see that source though, because there were several emperors named Claudius, and many more who had the name Claudius as part of their full name. Claudius gothicus would have probably done something like that (if he hadn't spent his whole reign fighting off goths) and Gaius Claudius Nero (that Nero) would leave me shocked if he didn't kill the automaton makers. Just go read some of the historical analysis of Claudius and see if you come away with the impression that killing inventors in the fighting pits (the Colosseum wasn't even built yet) was at all in line with his apparent character.
@napoleonibonaparte7198
3 жыл бұрын
One of those ‘automata’ played with me for chess…
@cgt3704
2 жыл бұрын
And beat you.
@user-qm7nw7vd5s
Жыл бұрын
What an amazing channel! Hard not to binge watch…
@sobertillnoon
Жыл бұрын
What's the deal with the Greeks' use of mythological figures having a weak spot on the ankle?
@viciousyeen6644
Жыл бұрын
They all wore sandals and that’s a very obvious weakspot to be hit at. Could also be a hidden trope meaning that was lost to time
@Rctdcttecededtef
Жыл бұрын
Achilles?
@sobertillnoon
Жыл бұрын
@@Rctdcttecededtef okay, so you're right. I have two examples. I assumed there'd be a 3rd.
@Rctdcttecededtef
Жыл бұрын
@@sobertillnoon not sure what you mean
@sobertillnoon
Жыл бұрын
@@Rctdcttecededtef I thought you were pointing out that there was literally only one other example, a possibility I feared when I wrote the comment. But I was thinking of specifically Achilles as another weak-ankled Chad.
@tatianaes3354
Жыл бұрын
*I LIKE* how you broke your character in the middle and all of a sudden started talking from the first perspective, with “I”.
@freddywondercat1362
Жыл бұрын
I knew this was gonna be a good video when you start the first chapter of the video w/ Aetas Romana
@abdelrahmanmustafa1633
10 ай бұрын
Where is the map at 8:32 from? Do you have a link please? Thanks in advance.
@KostasAdamos
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@kyleahmed6345
6 ай бұрын
16:18 out of context is wild "water springs out of his holy staff"
@trolly4233
Жыл бұрын
Mercury… maybe it was used as some kind of working fluid in some kind of hydraulics using magnetism?
@RogueReplicant
Жыл бұрын
Perhaps. But it was definitely used to create rotational energy as described in ancient Hindu epics. The Nazis also had a mercury-like substance (Xerum 525) that they used to power The Bell (an experimental "anti-gravity" or teleportation device). Large amounts of mercury are also found under certain Chinese and Mexican pyramids.
@necropolistc6357
Жыл бұрын
it's denser than water, so if your using water wheel you get more "force" from the mercury than you would the same amount of water
@trolly4233
Жыл бұрын
@@necropolistc6357 i mean using the properties of mercury (being that it can be affected by magnets) to use some kind of electric-pneumatics
@nadirsaeed6786
Жыл бұрын
The One Piece manga brought me here! Oda is amazing for referencing something like this into his story !
@a.r.h9919
8 ай бұрын
To imagine the possibility of Mayans alongside the greeks coming to a similar golem like those in elden ring with wood with blood of mercury for it's properties
@ArniesTech
Жыл бұрын
TES3 Morrowind has the Akulakhan 💪😎
@kamo7293
Жыл бұрын
0:12 all that programming... and they just break it down. nice
@ElFantasmo767
6 ай бұрын
I have been talking about automatons and their similarities to modern-day robots. Uncanny Valley exists for a reason. It's engrained in our DNA.
@ChaoticAgenda
6 ай бұрын
There's a version of the flying bird automata still in use today. During Easter in Florence, Italy they will send a rocket dove to ignite a stack of fireworks.
@OGJessie
Жыл бұрын
You forgot Zeus/Athena’s owl, the holy water dispenser and water counterweight Automatic doors.
@orestislazanakis4960
Жыл бұрын
It goes much deeper than that. Zeus had an entire armory of Lightnings, and his shield the Aegis was also capable of acting as a weapon. Both were made by the Cyclopes, who were associated with extreme science. Later, Prometheus goes to Athena, the male+female dragon lady according to the Orphic Hymns, and asks her to take him to the stars where he'd get the knowledge to create the men of the golden age. Athena granted his request so they both boarded the saucer-shaped Aegis and took off into space. But there's more! The whole Athena mythos is filled with such teasers to technology. The way she was born is technical, "Hephestus, I'll be instructing, you will be forging".... hammer to the head, putting an idea into practice. I can go on and on...
@justbeyondthecornerproduct3540
6 ай бұрын
Here I was mourning the downfall of a certain historical KZitemr, and this video shows up on my recommended this morning. Great content ❤
@elmanocristo
Жыл бұрын
You're stretching a bit with the golden maidens. They are part of the poetic vision of the epic text, and not a reference to robots or something like that.
@sologemeni
Жыл бұрын
really good video and presentation about a topic that is particularly interesting to me. thank you for the content
@lucaspavin3755
3 ай бұрын
Any book recommendations related to ancient automata? I have visited the Ancien Greek Technology Museum in Athens and since then, have been really hooked to the subject
@savannahshepherd2283
6 ай бұрын
Absolutely amazing 😊
@Eric-qo8vv
Жыл бұрын
Interesting just a bit monotone
@changeshifter4852
2 жыл бұрын
Simply fascinating * Thank you :)
@oooopsiewoooopsie4126
Жыл бұрын
Incredible content!
@benlap1977
7 ай бұрын
Thanks for this video
@rockel83
Жыл бұрын
The museum of Kotsanas in Athens is verry interesting for visiting regarding this topic 👍
@FRSHGOST
Жыл бұрын
What was the name of the film in the intro, where the pentagram was on the wall behind the robot?
@Zan_Jayna
Жыл бұрын
Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1929). Great movie.
@underscore_4231
Жыл бұрын
18:59 what the statue doin? 🤨📸
@LastBastion
6 ай бұрын
Sigale-gale puppet is pretty neat too, they're made with wood and string for movement. Need a human to control it now tho, because the art to automate it is already lost in time.
@kdjoshi726
Жыл бұрын
I would've loved it if you also focused on Indian history here since we too have various mentions of such proto-robots
@arx3516
6 ай бұрын
Those are undoubtedly relics of the Mycenean civilization. Luckily dr. Hell and dr. Kabuto have started an excavation on Bardos island to shed light on the technological advancements of the Myceneans!
@halkiierid4084
Жыл бұрын
A group of Islamic scholars known as the Banu Musa were able to build automata that were able to play music, as well as water clocks and an early prototype of the gas mask. When their creations were shown to visitors from the court of Charlemagne, it's said that they believed it was some sort of witchcraft.
@alexsveles343
Жыл бұрын
In the old times it was called automata, But the word robot is derived from russ8an rabot wich means worker,5he German arbeiter was also used for a while
@scpdatabase969
Жыл бұрын
Damn this really changed my perception… they seemed kinda close to the stream age and a technological revolution. Wow.
@damnyourpasswords
Жыл бұрын
...and then the Barbarians came from North and mostly Asia. If Europe was left alone especially Greeks, humanity would be 2000 years ahead in science than today. Roman orgies didnt also help a lot.
@garryferrington811
Жыл бұрын
We just entered the stream age with Hulu. I don't think they had the actual internet, though.
@damnyourpasswords
Жыл бұрын
@@garryferrington811 lol , I think he meant Steam
@Rctdcttecededtef
Жыл бұрын
Weird huh
@MattsDT
Жыл бұрын
@@damnyourpasswords Europe was a shithole all the time. Your discourse is only powered by eurocentrism
@TheDeadmanstrolling
Жыл бұрын
What did Ancient Rome have against writing down the blueprints to their inventions?
@garryferrington811
Жыл бұрын
They probably did have drawings which have been lost to time.
@renanfelipedossantos5913
Жыл бұрын
Nothing. But time seems to have something against paper heheheh
@restitvtororbis5330
Жыл бұрын
They had Greeks and Egyptians for that. If you only care about politics, prominence and military power, you just let the nerds you conquered do all the math and technology stuff . The Romans did have extensive civil engineering and architectural knowledge that, in practicality, FAR surpassed most others, but inventions like automatons were just curiosities to them, and remained so until basically the last century. You can't win a battle with a singing statue and you can't supply millions of people in dozens of cities, or build roads that last millennia by making the automaton equivalent of a puppet show. They weren't practical, they didn't have a firm idea on how they even could be practical, so they diverted their attention to things they knew where practical, and crucial for the success of the Roman empire.
@Amanda-kw1vi
2 жыл бұрын
Crazy! Makes me wonder why those coming to the US in the 1600s seem like Neanderthals compared to ancient people....
@seasong7655
3 жыл бұрын
They knew how to create something magical from science
@bluesplotch
Жыл бұрын
at 11:51 that is not Philo of Byzantium rather that is the speculative portrait of Philo of Alexandria
@thenewguyinred
6 ай бұрын
I’d argue that Talos is the first giant mecha in history.
@WetbackNoSetback
Жыл бұрын
Humans have a history of amnesia. Our empires rise & fall beneath the sands of time
@emjakos3548
Жыл бұрын
I don't see it that way, knowledge is power, and power isn't thrown away that easily
@fightfannerd2078
Жыл бұрын
Europeans have this problem
@WetbackNoSetback
Жыл бұрын
@@emjakos3548 then you obviously never heard of the wonders buried in the sands
@WetbackNoSetback
Жыл бұрын
@@fightfannerd2078 I guess you and i both dont consider Europeans Human 🤔
@christopherzantiotis
3 жыл бұрын
8:20... “The technical know how, to create such a device (whistling automata), ‘definitely’ existed in Egypt at this time”... Really now? A big citation is needed. Some archeological evidence of this technology is necessary. Going from a crude pulley that may have been invented in the 9th century BC, to a whistling statue is quite a step. Are you claiming they had siphons, valves, pistons or even gears (like the Ancient Greeks had/invented)? I’ve heard a lot about the supposed genius of Ancient Egypt, but little to no actual tangible evidence. It seems to be a kind of deference to Antiquity fallacy. Egypt was earlier than Classical, Archaic or even Mycenaean Hellenic civilization, therefore they must have been the forebears to the Greeks in terms of Accomplishment. I’ve heard so many stories, like the ancient Egyptians had Electricity or they invented western Philosophy, etc... once again, with no supporting evidence.
@kingsandthings
3 жыл бұрын
I share your frustration over extraordinary and unfounded claims about Egyptian technology! Keep in mind though, I'm not referring to early Egyptian history here. "at this time" refers to around 28 B.C. when the phenomenon supposedly started. That's over two centuries after Ctesibius and Philo lived, so it's not a sudden jump from the statuette of Hathor. My source for the statement was "CULTURAL ROOTS OF TECHNOLOGY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF AUTOMATED SYSTEMS FROM THE ANTIQUITY TO THE RENAISSANCE", and more specifically a section that discusses writings by Massimo Pettorino, Professor of Experimental Phonetics at the University of Naples L'Orientale. This is the quote in question "The third hypothesis, that of a hidden device, is the one Pettorino considers most likely, since the time when most witnesses live, is the same as Heron‘s: a suitable technology was available since two centuries." This refers to a device attributed to Ctesibius that would have created a loud noise. Admittedly, to say that the technology "definitely" existed might be a bit of a stretch, but it's by no means unlikely imo.
@christopherzantiotis
3 жыл бұрын
@@kingsandthings Thankyou for the clarification. I must have misheard the date. Yes, the technology existed at that time of 1st century bc. Thankyou for your response Nevertheless the plausibility of a device being installed in a broken statue, makes it dubious.
@sagidasyed6314
3 жыл бұрын
You deserve more likes
@Teeveepicksures
2 жыл бұрын
Without a shred of actual evidence I always daydreamed on the idea that the Egyptians simply migrated into an area that had a previously "advanced" civilization that left due to climate and/or plague much like early South American cities have similar stories about entire populations "disappearing".
@necropolistc6357
Жыл бұрын
you forget the Egyptian government is very secretive of their findings, and have been proven to be lying about some stuff, just keep that in mind
@richardmangelmann4975
Жыл бұрын
Oh my, Ive just come back from watching Metropolis in Berlin
@MirceaD28
Жыл бұрын
And this is just what survived and know. Imagine what has been lost.
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