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Hephaestus, besides his automatic/autonomous devices, was capable of developing much more advanced and complex machines, in fact, even the most evolved device of modern technology: Robots.
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Paipetis, S.A. (2010). The Robots of Hephaestus. In: The Unknown Technology in Homer. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2514-2_13
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