480 BC – cyberneticzoo.com http://cyberneticzoo.com a history of cybernetic animals and early robots Sun, 28 Feb 2016 08:33:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 480 BC – Wooden Horse Carriage – Lu Ban (Chinese) http://cyberneticzoo.com/walking-machines/480-bc-wooden-horse-carriage-lu-ban/ http://cyberneticzoo.com/walking-machines/480-bc-wooden-horse-carriage-lu-ban/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:51:07 +0000 http://cyberneticzoo.com/?p=319 Early Chinese Mechanical Horse / Ox The wooden ox (木牛流馬，lit. wooden ox flowing horse) was created by Zhuge Liang while he served Shu-Han. It was a thought to be either a mechanical, walking replica of an ox whose main purpose was to carry supplies such as grain to an army that was running low on supplies. […]

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