Architas
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Jan 2, 2019
The world's first flying automaton was a 4th-century BC mechanical dove
“The very first automaton that could fly was created by a friend of Plato named Architas. He was just a polymath, a brilliant inventor, engineer, and a general, and he created an artificial bird In the shape of a dove that could fly several yards.”