Name: Did Ancient Civilizations Build Humanoid Robots?
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Description: What if humanoid robots were 3,000 years old?

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What if humanoid robots were 3,000 years old?

Today's bots can breakdance, take out the trash, sort Amazon packages, run marathons, and soon will explore the surface of Mars. They're designed to make life easier—do things we can't, or don't want to do.

Stories from thousands of years ago describe picture-perfect descriptions of today's latest and greatest tech, from ancient China, to India, Greece, Japan, Prague, and later, even the Renaissance.

Did humanoid robots really appear in ancient times? If they did, were they fueled by a forgotten kind of AI, bestowed by Gods and magic—or something else entirely?

In this episode, enter the Codex Legendarium for a closer look at:
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 	<li>A Daoist story about a humanoid robot in China's Zhou Dynasty</li>
 	<li>Talos, a robot-guardian from ancient Greece</li>
 	<li>Pandora's Box full of computer viruses</li>
 	<li>Servants made out of gold by a Greek God</li>
 	<li>Robot warriors from India who defended Buddha's remains</li>
 	<li>Where Jewish Golems get their life force</li>
 	<li>Household objects coming to life as Tsukumogami in Japan</li>
 	<li>Da Vinci's mechanical knight; a still-working machine-monk</li>
 	<li>What might've fueled robots in ancient times</li>
 	<li>Why ancient humanoid robots could have vanished</li>
 	<li>Where the "soul" of an ancient robot might've come from, how they appear in pop culture, and much more.</li>
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