Some automatons

Those are some videos of automatons from 17th and 18th century, made by Met museum in New York.

Automaton in the shape of obelisk with clock, Flamish from 1777.

 

German automaton from 1610.

Writer and drawer, Swiss automaton

Dance, german automaton from 1625.

German clock with automaton, year 1554. 

Eastern automaton, around 1600. 

Systems of metalic discs, on wich function of automatons is based was inspiration for gramophon disks, and after that cd-s.