She was constructed by Hephaestus, the brilliant blacksmith god of invention and technology.
But they had the story of Pandora as an example: According to Greek mythology, the young woman depicted on the vase was a trick devised by Zeus to punish mortals for accepting Prometheus’s stolen gift of fire.
And while humanity lacked the tools or the science to build an actual robot back then, the Greeks of that period were already imagining the possibility of artificial life.Īs in our own era, the Greeks were ambivalent, even fearful, about the idea of imitating nature. But this unique female figure-a depiction of Pandora-was painted on a clay vase nearly two and a half millenniums ago. She resembles a robot, perhaps a distant twin of Maria, the automaton of Fritz Lang’s 1927 classic film Metropolis. A woman looks out at us, her arms stiff and doll-like.
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