Look closely into the window of watchmaker Jaquet Droz’ Charming Bird timepiece and there’s something small and rather marvellous happening: a tiny bird spins on its axis, chirping and flapping its ...
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 ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Critic’s Notebook Now we fret about chatbots. An earlier age worried about automatons, the uncanny humanoid contraptions whose voices could trigger love or mania. Sometimes a ...
New versions range from ‘disruptive’ models like Jaquet Droz’s Rolling Stones watch to idyllic scenes from Van Cleef & Arpels. By Kathleen Beckett Ask some experts what an automaton is in the watch ...
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