Today, robots are everywhere. We even worry about them taking our jobs. But the history of automation goes back some 900 years, when Ismail al-Jazari, a Muslim scholar, invented the first robotics, ...

He even influenced modern systems of the steam engine and to some extent, automatic controls. Al-Jazari was a genius born in the 12th century and he died in the early 13th century. His skills were ...

A Turkish professor has dedicated himself to finding remnants of the great inventions of Ismail Al-Jazari – a man of wisdom who inspired cybernetic and robotic sciences with his centuries-old ...