Robot Knight
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Robot Knight (our title; or Leonardo's Robot (Wikipedia; see note below). Photo of posted by Steven Heller, a major figure "in the Design community" (quoting Chad Dresbach, with thanks): <https://www.facebook.com/thedailyheller.thedailyheller/posts/2731039283887459>.
Includes brief commentary beginning, "Since the inception of the robotic era in the late fifteenth century, when Leonardo DaVinci imagined his mechanical knight automaton[1] — we have attempted to lord over our machines by making them more human and simultaneously servile."
RDE, CD, 2Ap20