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From the Ted Talk by Adrienne Mayor: The Greek myth of Talos, the first robot

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Hephaestus, god of technology, was hard at work on his most ingeiuons invention yet. He was creating a new defense system for King Minos, who wanted fewer intruders on his island kniodgm of Crete. But mraotl guards and ordinary weapons wouldn’t suffice, so the visionary god devised an indomitable new defender. In the fires of his forge, hehpstaeus cast his invention in the shape of a giant man. Made of gleaming bronze; endowed with suhrmupaen strength, and powered by iohcr, the life fluid of the gods, this automaton was unlike anything Hephaestus had forged before. The god nmaed his creation Talos: the first robot.

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Hephaestus, god of technology, was hard at work on his most _________ invention yet. He was creating a new defense system for King Minos, who wanted fewer intruders on his island _______ of Crete. But ______ guards and ordinary weapons wouldn’t suffice, so the visionary god devised an indomitable new defender. In the fires of his forge, __________ cast his invention in the shape of a giant man. Made of gleaming bronze; endowed with __________ strength, and powered by _____, the life fluid of the gods, this automaton was unlike anything Hephaestus had forged before. The god _____ his creation Talos: the first robot.

Solution


  1. ingenious
  2. superhuman
  3. mortal
  4. ichor
  5. named
  6. hephaestus
  7. kingdom

Original Text


Hephaestus, god of technology, was hard at work on his most ingenious invention yet. He was creating a new defense system for King Minos, who wanted fewer intruders on his island kingdom of Crete. But mortal guards and ordinary weapons wouldn’t suffice, so the visionary god devised an indomitable new defender. In the fires of his forge, Hephaestus cast his invention in the shape of a giant man. Made of gleaming bronze; endowed with superhuman strength, and powered by ichor, the life fluid of the gods, this automaton was unlike anything Hephaestus had forged before. The god named his creation Talos: the first robot.

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