This documentary film is presented to you by Lutèce Créations, the European specialist of music boxes and automatons. Our company proposes through its Parisian store and its websites, various antique (from the end of the XIXth century until the first world war) and vintage (50's until the 70's) automatons.
This philosophical documentary directed by Léonide Azar in 1952, draws up a panorama of all categories of machines. Starting with the human machine, because the automatons of the 18th and 19th centuries (android automatons of Jaquet-Droz, musical automatons of Jean-Marie Phalibois) allow us to draw a parallel with the complex mechanics of the human body. Are we not natural automatons, as Descartes thought, with our automatic gestures disconnected from the conscious mind?
The machine, artificial as for it, carries out initially very simple works to increase the output and is also able to completely replace the man in dangerous tasks (robotized hands handling radioactive substances or liquids with explosive properties). Some machines can also be equipped with a brain (Pascal's calculating machine).
The more complicated the machine becomes, the more it is capable of replacing man and the more it resembles the complexity of the human body. We are then far from the charming automatons of our ancestors. Doesn't the robot join man and surpass him?
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Key words: automatons / automaton / automata / android / androids / machine / machines / robot / robots / human / body.
Hashtags: #automatons #machines #robots
27 апр 2021
