Jaquet Droz The Writer Automaton From 1774 In Action: Inspired Hugo Movie 

If you go back to those days of innovation this was a dream to make a human machine that is autonomous.

It is pretty awesome that someone had time and effort to create automaton like that. In fact it's pretty amazing.

The automaton works fine without him. He was just testing/calibrating it as it was about to be shot for some video. I thought it was interesting to see the worker operate it. There are only a handful of people in the world that know how to maintain these machines.

for a 1774 work of engineering I'm impressed

Love it, and there's something so charming about the way he dips his quill into the ink-well.

dude this was made in 1774. each piece of that mechanism was made by hand. he didn't make it using a computer or some sort of machining system. no one today could do what this guy did with the resources he had available to him.

R U kidding me???!!!! This is brilliant engineering even for 2012! :))) it is fascinating, I'm absolutely speechless.

😮 Absolutely incredible

Amazing that these were built so long ago. Seems we should be vacationing on Mars by now.

It says, "EPSTEIN DIDN'T KILL HIMSELF"

It's quite amazing that this machine, Pierre Jaquet-Droz' "L'écrivain", could had been built at that time.

Are you serious? This was built in 1774! Do you think you, or anyone you know, could figure out how to make one these today in 2012? I'm sure it would be a struggle even with our vast internet resources.

Why does he keep prodding it? Leave the poor bot alone, he's trying his best. He's 250 years old for pity's sake!

Amazing.

Amazing

Yea, it is super cool.

So we just gonna forget about the book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret. You know the book that the movie is actually inspired from. While the writer did influence Brian Selznick, his book existed many years before a movie version of his creation was even thought of. Also, while the writer is an automata is was not even the biggest inspiration for the design from the book or the movie, the credit for that goes to Henri Maillardet who built a automation that could both draw and write and has a cage like body as seen in both the book and movie. Please when researching amazing things from history spend a little more time.

And of course, GREAT JOB !!!! Quien lo haya creado, debió de costarle mucho hacerlo! es super fabuloso :P! Saludos desde Venezuela!

Creepy but awesome!

IT WAS A BOOK FIRST, a beautiful one too

"WOW...."😱

Thats early robotics and programming

you can get a doll like this its called Suzy Scribbles from WOW worlds of wonder and she will draw pictures for you while sitting

The first programers.

some are 1 thousand years behind

Holy fucking shit

That robot/doll looks creepy...

Dejen la cámara quieta

world first CNC...

SCP-914?

They are the robots that in the year 3000 kill everybody :O

So what does the message say?

The Terminator 1700s

imagine he write nigga.

Yes shut off the background noise

Excellent! But HELP! I still fail to understand how BOY knows what to write.

"destruiré a la humanidad"

Inspiration for the movie Hugo? More like inspiration for the movie CHUCKY!

just stumble this and what you know that doll can write in French?

me da miedo esa cabeza, es un esperpentor

i can see its not only work by machine its also has a living spirit inside it

did africa ever produce such such a marvel even centuries thereafter?

Someone needs to learn how to hold a camera.

Go ahead and build a better one then.

Ami los autómatas me dan miedo

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He’s so nasty to the camera guy lol

A great lesson of respect for our predecessors. What wanna-be engineers can do now? use arduino for blinking LED?

This vid must have the most annoying audio ever, that in itself is worth mentioning. The automaton itself is an amazing feat imho. Did I say the audio makes me want to die? O.o

Amazing automaton, but absolutely terrible camerawork. You couldn't have shaken the camera more when showing the mechanism, also didn't film the mechanism enough.

Stop forcing the fucking mechanism!!!! It's 250 years old!!!!

A machine created in 1774 is still working, with little prodding, and you call it a failure? LOL! Let's see you create something like that today, much less two centuries ago. And it is not an android, C. Ronaldo, failed or otherwise. Androids are not robots, which is closer to what an automaton is. Your two cents are worthless.

amazing but rather annoying to see the man touching this and that. the little guy is from 1774. let him do his job & don't expect him to have COSC!

hate to say this,but this is hardly fascinating.the guy was pushing the base of the paper holder constantly and it seems to need to be constantly adjusted to write hardly a few alphabets.i dont know what the fuss is about put besides from the cool looking gears, this is just a FAILED android .just my 2 cents