discover more

Our web site is meant to be illustrative rather than comprehensive, small rather than large, subjective rather than objective, so if you want to explore more, here are some great more comprehensive resources:

• Anthrobotic

• Automotons before computing:

  • E.R. Truitt. Prenatural Machines. Aeon, March 30, 2015

  • G. Wood. Living Dolls: A Magical History for the Quest of Mechanical Life. The Guardian, February 16 2002.

• Cybernetic Zoo: a history of cybernetic animals and early robotics - the best treasure trove out there

• Plastic Pals: another robot repo

• Robotics Today: listing >1000 robots

• The Old Robots

• A timeline of the robots on this webpage and more

• Hubots: a job agency for humans, cyborgs and robots

• A completely subjective and unfair selection of articles we like:

  • James Vincent. Please Ignore the Robots. The Verge, July 4 2017.

  • An excellent critical reflection on robots as musicians (in Dutch).

Yes. We do like old stuff.