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Gakutensoku
- vintagedave 1mo agoThe Wikipedia page doesn't say: what happened to this robot? > the details of its disappearance are unknown A mystery! Someone will know...
- aa-jv 1mo agoI like to think he's in some wealthy parlor somewhere, sequestered away, bringing mirth and humanity to an elite few who need it most of all.
- vintagedave 1mo agoI can find references to: * Appearance in Korea at an expo (1928, 1929?): https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/landing/article.kci?arti_id=ART002585353 https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/landing/article.kci?arti_id=... * The creator writing about it in 1931 (reference 10 on the same page) Shanghai but uncertain date. Was it dismantled in either Korea or China, or shipped back and dismantled, or destroyed?
- ludamn 1mo ago[dead]
- 8bitsrule 1mo ago"the 7'8" tall automaton would start his performance by touching a mace to his head before he proceeded to write out Chinese characters... "touring Germany when he was somehow lost... "In 2008, the Osaka Science Museum produced a new Gakutensoku. At 10'6", the new golden-skinned automata... https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gakutensoku https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gakutensoku --- More on Nishimura & motives: https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-short-strange-life-of-the-first-friendly-robot https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-short-strange-life-of-the-firs...
- tantalor 1mo agoAutomaton
- h_mirin 1mo agoI'm Japanese, and this is the first I've heard of Gakutensoku. If you asked people in Japan for an old Japanese "robot", I think most would come up with this tea-carrying karakuri doll. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakuri_puppet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakuri_puppet That one predates the word "robot" entirely. The design is documented in a 1796 book called "Karakuri Zui", so Edo period, shoguns still in charge.
- ginko 1mo agoYeah, I was about to object that this is essentially a large automaton of which there are tons of earlier examples from Japan.
- miki_mq 1mo agoI have zero knowledge of Japanese but in the description's first line it is 學天則, but in the picture the text is 則天學.
- jankcorn 1mo agoWhen Japanese is written horizontally, it can be read either left->right or right->left. (occasionally, quite bewildering) I have only seen right->left on signs; I have never seen it in books or magazines.
- wren6991 1mo agoIt's technically not right-to-left. It's columnar top-to-bottom (縦書き), with the columns right-to-left. In signage you can have one character per column (kind of like one word per row on some English signs), making it look like right-to-left text.
- seoulbigchris 1mo agoKorea does this, also. Sometimes I'll get confused at a restaurant or other sign that is just 2x2 array of syllables. Is this horizontal or vertical? Even more confusing is when it can be sensibly read either way.
- CarVac 1mo agoI've mostly seen it on the right side of vehicle livery.
- mrbluecoat 1mo agoPicture of the rebuilt robot: https://www.nippon.com/en/views/b00906/ https://www.nippon.com/en/views/b00906/