Time Machine

摘要

I think, therefore I am. Those are the words (in French) inked in quill by the world's first literate robot, assembled in 1774 from some 600 components by Swiss watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz. And while Marie Antoinette appreciated its philosophical sense of humor, the humanoid automaton ran afoul of the Catholic Inquisition. Accused of heresy, the machine-fashionably accoutred in silk pantaloons and a velvet j acket-spent several months in a Spanish prison.