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Open Stacks: Ancestral Machines
🤖 From Renaissance automata to Japanese karakuri dolls, the history of robotics long predates robots.
Join us Dec 3, 4:30–6:30 PM, for Open Stacks: Ancestral Machines. Explore rare books and artifacts that reveal how humans imagined “machines that move themselves” centuries before modern computing and robotics. All are welcome! Snacks and fun provided.
Open Stacks is a series of pop-up exhibitions and public programs that bring rare books, manuscripts, and early technologies out of the vault and into view. Each event offers a thematically focused look at objects from Carnegie Mellon’s Special Collections, inviting conversations about the materiality, histories, and futures of science, technology, literature, and the book.
- Date:
- Wednesday, December 3, 2025
- Time:
- 4:30pm - 6:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Posner Center
- Campus:
- Posner Center
- Categories:
- Special Collections
