The ideas in this article are considerably less irritating than I thought it was at first. Essentially:
* "In 300 B.C., two Greek ambassadors, Megasthenes and Deimachus, resided in [North India]"
* "Did they bring plans or miniature models of automatons and other mechanical devices?"
* Is the origin of a legend about robots guarding the remains of Buddha inspired by these automatons the Greeks brought from the West to the East?
It's still all conjecture, takes far too long to get to it's point, and copy-paste is disabled on the site, but it's not another "Ancient India invented the internet"[0] howler
* "In 300 B.C., two Greek ambassadors, Megasthenes and Deimachus, resided in [North India]"
* "Did they bring plans or miniature models of automatons and other mechanical devices?"
* Is the origin of a legend about robots guarding the remains of Buddha inspired by these automatons the Greeks brought from the West to the East?
It's still all conjecture, takes far too long to get to it's point, and copy-paste is disabled on the site, but it's not another "Ancient India invented the internet"[0] howler
[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-43806078