It’s fitting that the European renaissance of automata, or kinetic sculptures designed to mimic human movement, began with a clockmaker—like their timekeeping counterparts, automata operate on cue, ...

A collection of automata have been drawing in visitors to the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro. Those behind the Marvellous Mechanical Museum exhibition said it was a blend of art and science, and full ...

OK, near-life. Life, exquisitely mimicked. Life so lifelike that it prompts the question: if it isn't alive, what is it? It's an automaton. Also known as a "living doll." A clown strums a ukulele. An ...

Nowadays everyone hems and haws about the uncanny valley, but we don’t realize how good we have it in the 21st century. Decades ago, anthropomorphic machines and animal-like automata straddled the ...

Even before Mary Shelley imagined the animation of the lifeless in Frankenstein, brilliant minds across Europe – clockmakers, to be exact – were already tinkering in their workshops, breathing life ...

KOBE--Catering to those who can’t get enough of playing with toys, the Arima Toys and Automata Museum turned its third floor into hotel rooms so visitors can indulge in their hobby for as long as they ...

Four centuries of automata whir into wondrous life in a show that’s as much performance as it is exhibition Standing sentry at the door to this enthralling exhibition is a lively figure known as The ...

AutomataCon, following up its successful first event held in 2016, returns to Morristown, New Jersey May 18 - 20, 2018. AutomataCon is a convention of and for artists, collectors, historians, and ...