Letters From The Time Traveler: It’s a Robot-Centric Future
Dearest,
I am seriously in the strangest timeline. I miss when robots did not roam the Earth. I miss when I could tell if someone was a human or a robot. The development of AI and robot technology took off quite quickly in the mid 2020’s.
However what you may not know are robots themselves have been around a long time. A very long time.
Even Leonardo DaVinci Invented a Robot
In 2024, realistic humanoid robots are but a figment of creative writers’ imaginations. However, the attempt to make the perfect robot has been in process for hundreds of years.
Back even to the time of Leonardo DaVinci, inventors have invented many different types of robots.
Leonardo Da Vinci wrote extensively about automatons, and his personal notebooks are littered with ideas for mechanical creations ranging from a hydraulic water clock to a robotic lion. Perhaps most extraordinary of all is his plan for an artificial man in the form of an armored Germanic…