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For decades we have been building automatons, self-operating machines, designed to resemble humans and animals. Causing the designer to break down human and animal movements, behaviors ...

The 17th-century philosopher analogized organ systems to clockwork, and saw animals as no different from automatons.Credit...Alamy There’s a more positive vision of android affection in ...