Lost for More Than a Century, the First ‘Sci-Fi’ Film Ever Made Resurfaces
March 10, 2026
Explore automata
The Iconic ‘Silver Swan’ Automaton Gets a Well-Deserved Fluff of the Feathers
November 15, 2023
A Reel-to-Reel Recorder Animates Wildlife Automata Using Carl Sagan’s Warning of Climate Disasters
May 9, 2023
Sisyphus Eternally Pushes a Boulder Up a Mechanical Incline in Ross McSweeney’s Nimble Automata
January 20, 2023
Dive Into the Process Behind Crafting a Kinetic Humpback Whale That Swims with a Hand-Crank
April 13, 2022
Delightful Characters Spring to Life in Hand-Cranked Wooden Automata by Kazuaki Harada
May 12, 2021
30 Hand-Cranked Machines Comprise Amusing Series of Miniatures by Artist Federico Tobon
June 12, 2020
Follow Nectar-Hungry Birds as They Soar Through New Automated Flip Books by Juan Fontanive
March 26, 2019
The Quirky Wooden Automata of Kazuaki Harada
February 28, 2018
Elaborate Hand-Cranked Automata by Dave Hall
June 21, 2016
An Amazing Collection of Mechanical Singing Bird Automata Filmed by Douglas Fisher
July 21, 2014
Bird & Butterfly Flip Book Machines by Juan Fontanive
April 15, 2014
A Hand-Cranked Automaton That Mimics the Effect of a Raindrop Hitting Water
March 3, 2014
This Programmable 6,000-Part Drawing Boy Automata is Arguably the First Computer and It Was Built 240 Years Ago
November 5, 2013
Lost & Found: Inside the Bizarre Wonderland of Artist and Tinkerer Blair Somerville
September 17, 2013
Manually Cranked Wood Toy Performs Sleight-of-hand Magic
July 1, 2013