Editing Robots in literature (section)

==Early uses==
The earliest examples were all presented as the results of divine intervention and include: The dry bones that came to life in the Book of Ezekiel (Chapter 37); three-legged self-navigating tables created by the god Hephaestus (Iliad xviii); and the statue Galatea, brought to life by the prayers of her creator Pygmalion.

More recent humaniform examples include the brooms from the legend of the sorcerer's apprentice derived from a tale by [[Lucian of Samosata]] in the 1st century AD, the Jewish legend of the [[golem]] created like Adam from clay, and Mary Shelley's ''[[Frankenstein]]''. These tales include an indictment of human folly at presuming to take on the role of creator.

Notable mechanical representations of humans include the life-sized singing puppet ''Olimpia'' in the short story "[[The Sandman (short story)|The Sandman]]" by [[E. T. A. Hoffmann]] in 1816 and a bipedal anthropomorphic mechanism in ''[[The Steam Man of the Prairies]]'' by [[Edward S. Ellis]] in 1868.<ref>37 original stories about anthropomorphic and zoomorphic machines appeared in dime novels between 1868 and 1899. See Dime Novel Robots by Joseph A. Lovece. https://www.amazon.com/Dime-Novel-Robots-1868-1899-Bibliography/dp/1511578661/</ref> These examples are stories about human-controlled mechanisms without autonomy or self-awareness.

In [[Lyman Frank Baum]]'s [[children's novel]] ''[[Ozma of Oz]]'', the first-ever introduction of a humanoid-appearance mechanical man that would satisfy the later "humanoid robot" definition occurred in 1907 - some fifteen years before the word "robot" was coined - with [[Tik-Tok (Oz)|Tik-Tok]], powered with a trio of clockwork movements for his thinking, movement and speech, none of which he could wind up himself.

In 1912,<ref>[https://litteraturbanken.se/forfattare/LagerlofS/bibliografi Litteraturbanken]</ref> [[Selma Lagerlöf]] published the poem ''Slåtterkarlarna på Ekolsund''<ref>[https://runeberg.org/troll1/ekolsund.html ''Slåtterkarlarna på Ekolsund'']</ref> which was published in the first part of ''Troll och människor''. In the poem [[Christopher Polhem]] is hired to create mechanical mowers for a farmer.