It’s strange that there isn’t more imagination about automated systems.
[snip] The Turk, also known as the Mechanical Turk or Automaton Chess Player (German: Schachturke, “chess Turk”’ Hungarian: A Turok), was a fake chess-playing machine constructed in the late 18th century. From 1770 until its destruction by fire in 1854 it was exhibited by various owners as an automaton, though it was exposed in the early 1820s as an elaborate hoax. [/snip]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk
[snip] Artegal has a companion in Talus, a metal man who wields a flail and never sleeps or tires but will mercilessly pursue and kill any number of villains. Talus obeys Artegal’s command, and serves to represent justice without mercy (hence, Artegal is the more human face of justice). Later, Talus does not rescue Artegal from enslavement by the wicked Radigund, because Artegal is bound by a legal contract to serve her. [/snip]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Faerie_Queene#Major_characters
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