Chandrayaan-3 shows India's technological prowess, here's how Medieval Indian engineers built robots

Описание: #thinkingmedieval #chandrayaan3

Chandrayaan has demonstrated India's technological prowess, but medieval Indian technology was also impressive—and not in the ways that you'd expect. Rather than stem cells or gene therapy, medieval people used water to power clockwork robots. Anirudh Kanisetti explains the evidence.

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