The Franklin Institute's automaton can't help you find a good sushi place, direct you out of a traffic jam or check your bank balance. But the automaton, a mechanical doll animated by a complex system ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A museum conservator and horologist loses her colleague and married lover of 13 years, forcing her to use the intricate restoration of a 19th century automaton and the diaries of ...

MORRISTOWN -- The Morris Museum will host the first-ever "AutomataCon," a two-day convention celebrating automatons and related kinetic art on March 19, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and March 20, from 11 ...

AutomataCon, following up its successful first event held in 2016, returns to Morristown, New Jersey May 18 - 20, 2018. AutomataCon is a convention of and for artists, collectors, historians, and ...

This automaton of a friar can imitate a walking man thanks to a wind-up mechanism. The friar's eyes move from side to side, while one arm raises a rosary's cross for an automated kiss and the other ...

A new gallery has opened up at the Museum of Fine Arts, and it’s a wonder to behold. It’s the Kunstkammer gallery, and it re-creates the collection displays — often known in English as “curiosity ...

The 3.5-foot timepiece, which includes an automaton, is on loan to the Paris museum until November. By Nazanin Lankarani Reporting from Paris Ancient water clocks, the astronomical devices of the ...