1739 .. The world's first robot duck mechanism innovative erosion and drinking and flutter

Did you know that the world has been gone for years to make a robot, where the first attempt in 1739 gave birth to the crazy idea of ​​creating a duck with a life-size mechanism and equipped with 39, a digestive system for eating, drinking and digesting.

According to the Swarthmore scientific site, Jacques de Focanson in Grenoble, in early 1738, reacted to the madness of moving objects in the eighteenth century, giving his first fully automatic report, "The Flute Player", and producing the automatic duck a year later.

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The mechanical duck had the ability to eat the grains, also digested, but it did not stay in the garbage while part of it was imaginary and hoped to find a way to actually get them out, the food was collected in a container and the production of excrements pre-stored the second, For that there is no real digestion.

Fuchanson was famous for this "duck" because this mechanical monster could flap wings and eat and digest cereals. Each wing contains more than four hundred moving parts. Unfortunately, this duck has now disappeared, but a replica was made by a watchmaker after his innovations were transformed by a small museum in front of the public.

At the time, the changes made by this inventor were not welcomed, but it is an important core that was developed years later to participate in the computer revolution Today, at the At the end of his life, Foucanson became a member of the Académie des Sciences where he died in Paris in 1782.

Fortunately, in 2006, the Belgian artist Wim Delphoy introduced a new mechanism called "Cloaca Machine" to realize Fokanson's dream, a mechanical work that digests food and turns it into excrement.