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The automaton: "Digestive duck"



The automaton: "Digestive duck"

One of the famous automaton "Digestive Duck"(1) above this text created by inventor Jacques de Vaucanson (1709-1782) (2) in the year 1739. The question is why Vaucanson made this thing? Who gave money for that device? And why that money was given? Was it made for some kind of early drone weapon? When we are looking at the early robots, we must realize that the real inventors of those devices might be hidden their real identities by claiming that some other person has been made those systems. 

At this point, I must say that many people believe that the word "robot" was invented Karel Čapek but it was Karel's brother Josef Čapek (3). The thing is that the word was created by Josef, but the automatically operating system was the old dream for mankind and the mechanical duck was not the first attempt to make this kind of machine.

The small bag of gunpowder would put in that structure. There is a possibility that the mechanical duck would eat gunpowder, and then walk to the powder store pulling the line of the gunpowder behind it. Or maybe the nitroglycerin bottles could be hidden in those structures. That explosive invented in 1847 and maybe this kind of automatons was made after this invention. 

Maybe some of these systems will pull the powdery ammonium nitrate explosive wire in behind it. But there have been made many versions of this kind of automaton, and some of them have the combustion engines. There is a possibility that the guidance system, what bases the automatic piano, and the punched tapes have been used to control the electric used models. 

Duck robot or other mechanical independently operating the machine has been created an idea, that maybe IBM or some other people created a more advanced model of this robot. There is a possibility that the "modern version" of this mechanical duck would operate by using punched tape and this kind of system could walk in some area. There were two types of punched tape mechanical or thing, which uses light. 

The mechanical version would use the springs, what are making electricity go through it in the places, where the hole is, and that electricity would move the feet of the duck. The feet must be connected to the wheel or replaced by the wheel when the wheeled system can get more speed and both of the wheels would have their electric motor. When the electricity is cut the other wheel would not have power, and that turns the vehicle. 

One of the great inventions for robots is the electronic computer would give this kind of thing more abilities operating independently. The modern versions of this kind of mechanical automaton can have enough powerful computer that it could operate independently in simple missions. In the modern versions, the robot could drink ethanol for its fuel cells, and the system could also fly. 





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