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Robot Dawn: From Clockwork Automata to Walking Humanoids

Run five machines — a clockwork automaton, a teleoperated body, an electrical showpiece, a sensing rover, and a two-legged walker — and watch who decides the next motion shift from the metal itself to an operator, and finally to the machine reading its own state.

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Five bodies, five ways of deciding “next”

Shapes that resemble a person have not all moved by the same mechanism. From a body replaying a set motion to a body that measures its own tilt and changes its next step. We tour five machines along a single question: who decides the next motion?

Turn the 3D gallery, select each of the five plinths, and compare outlines against internal mechanisms.

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