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Watch a short film about Japan’s 300-year-old handmade robots

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Filmmaker Matthew Allard has made this lovely little interview with craftsman Hideki Higashino, who specializes in the creation of Karakuri, or automata dating back to Japan’s Edo period. Don’t worry, they’re a helluva lot less freaky than medieval European automata.

https://gizmodo.com/in-the-15th-century-satanic-automata-wigged-out-church-5795086

[Via MAKE]

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