The First Robot Was a 19th-Century Automaton - Apparently.
In 1820, a French inventor named Jacques de Vaucanson created a mechanical duck that could quack, flap its wings, and even excrete "poo" made of a mixture of bread and water. The automaton, which stood about 3 feet tall, was powered by a series of pulleys and levers. De Vaucanson's mechanical duck was a marvel of its time and predated the development of modern robotics by over a century.
This fact is verifiable through historical records and accounts of de Vaucanson's work.