Let me explain, because someone downmodded my snarky response earlier.
- How do the androids see? There isn't any cogent explanation of sight until the last 100 years. If there is some principle of sight discovered earlier, why didn't we see other simpler devices from the same era?
- How do the androids know what they see?
- How do the androids know who revealed the secrets? How do they know their address, or where they are right then?
- How do they act? Where do they get the energy from? How is it stored?
- How do they walk? Boston Dynamics has been beating its head for quite some time now. Someone who can read those old documents, please reveal the secret, and relieve them of their confused misery.
If they are anything they must be glorified rat traps. I am not trying to be offensive, but this article just offends any rational thought.
All of the sources mentioned in the article describe the Romavisaya as a "legend". It's unclear whether or not it has a real connection with any ancient device, although some of the sources suggest that the legend was inspired by ancient technology (which would have been much more limited than the devices in the story).
This article refers to the account as a "story", "legend", or "tale" deriving from "oral traditions". Since all of the actual robot content is repeatedly said to come from a "legend", I don't think the article's author is trying to convince you that this actually happened historically!
The article is describing and comparing legends. It makes that clear multiple times, it doesn't claim any of this actually existed as described. So how does it "offend rational thought"?
To be fair, the article is written in such a way that it shows you what you want to see. If you want it to be about myths, then it's about myths. If you want it to be a claim of actual ancient robotics, then you can ignore the few lines buried in there that use the word "legend".
You are reading the article wrong - maybe because you are prejudiced to reading it wrong.
The article is part legend and part truth. The robots weren't anything like the robots of today. There were mostly likely simple machines shaped like a human and with some movements. The movements could be orchestrated, for example, by flowing water through a mill which moves a circular disk with knives attached to a human shaped platform.
A lot of the legends are exaggerations and narrative hyperbole which often results when information can also travel verbally. The bigger the exaggeration, the farther the information flows.
- How do the androids see? There isn't any cogent explanation of sight until the last 100 years. If there is some principle of sight discovered earlier, why didn't we see other simpler devices from the same era?
- How do the androids know what they see?
- How do the androids know who revealed the secrets? How do they know their address, or where they are right then?
- How do they act? Where do they get the energy from? How is it stored?
- How do they walk? Boston Dynamics has been beating its head for quite some time now. Someone who can read those old documents, please reveal the secret, and relieve them of their confused misery.
If they are anything they must be glorified rat traps. I am not trying to be offensive, but this article just offends any rational thought.