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Alamet
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Alamet was a robot built in 1889 in the Ottoman Empire. It was given as a gift from the Ottoman Palace to the Japanese Emperor during the period of Abdul Hamid II. Alamet's form was similar to that of the human form, and the robot was nearly life-size. It had a sound player which produced the adhan (the islamic call prayer). Alamet contained clockwork that enabled it to perform a specific series of actions: walk forward half a meter, open its arms, bow (ruku'), stand up, turn around, and return to its starting place. Some pictures of the Alamet can be found in Yıldız in Ä°stanbul. According to a press article published in 2011 by Hürriyet, the Alamet robot was however merely a fantastic story of its time. |
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