Leonardo´s da Vinci

LEONARDO´S ROBOT

Leonardo's robot was a humanoid automaton designed by Leonardo da Vinci around the year 1495.

The design notes for the robot appeared in rediscovered sketchbooks in the 1950s. It is not known if during the life of Leonardo an attempt was made to build the device, but once the discovery of the drawings was made, it was quickly built faithfully in Leonardo's designs, and it was shown to be specifically functional.

The robot is a warrior dressed in German-Italian medieval armor, which is apparently capable of making several movements similar to those of humans. These movements include sitting, moving the arms, neck and jaw in an anatomically perfect way. It is interpreted that this is the result of Leonardo's anatomical investigation in the canon of proportions he describes in the Vitruvian Man.

In 2007, Mario Taddei wrote a book about Leonardo da Vinci's robot to find new drawings and clues, and presented an even more correct reconstruction of the robot.