Robots are so commonplace now that we use them to entertain kids at amusement parks. But even though modern technology has given us artificial lifeforms that can walk, talk, and even fly, there's still something utterly fascinating about pre-electronic
mechanical automatons like this
Vers de Soie caterpillar dating back to 1820.
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