Hephaestus has mechanical servants in the Iliad. They’re basically self-driving delivery vehicles, in fact. No designs, of course, but people’ve evidently thou

Hephaestus has mechanical servants in the Iliad. They’re basically self-driving delivery vehicles, in fact. No designs, of course, but people’ve evidently thought about autonomous machines for a long time. Of course there’s a living river in the same book. So.