The Who's lead singer Roger Daltrey and his wife Heather are in Edinburgh,Scotland to auction a choice of rare mechanical devices called automata. Automata are models of people or animals from preceding centuries that appear to be moving independently but are actually lively by a hidden clockwork mechanism. They were a form of artificial intelligence that took the world by storm long before the digital age. For too many of us, their fascinating story has been forgotten.
Source: phys.org