Posts Tagged ‘robots’

Enemy Machine

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

Sketchbook Cover

Her Majesty’s Automaton

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

Steampunk robot! Heavily inspired by Keith Thompson.

Her Majestys Automaton

Robot Portraits

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

These robot portraits were created for Jürgen Brunner’s indie game Pitiri.

Steampunk Was Real.

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

While doing some research for my thesis, I stumbled upon these amazing “automatons.” Automatons are basically mechanical robots with two of the most famous examples being The Turk and Vaucanson’s duck. The Golden Age of automatons was the second half of the 19th century, the ones shown here however were created by a Swiss watchmaker by the name of Pierre Jaquet-Droz around the year 1770 and finished in 1774.

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