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  1. Mechanical figure imitating human or animal
  2. performance.  Automatons are usually designed
  3. for aesthetic appeal as opposed to purely 
  4. functional robots. The earliest recorded 
  5. automaton is an Egyptian wooden pigeon of 
  6. 400 BC.
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  8. Subject by: Russell Webb
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