An Aeon piece, written by Associate Professor of History Elly Truitt, was cited in The Atlantic article "What is a Robot?"
In 10th-century Europe, Emperor Constantine VII apparently had a throne “flanked by golden lions that ‘gave a dreadful roar with open mouth and quivering tongue’ and switched their tails back and forth,” according to an Aeon essay by Elly Truitt, a medieval historian at Bryn Mawr College.
Truitt is also the author of a new book that looks at Medieval robots.