Greece

Pandora — first woman crafted from clay → engineered being.

Pygmalion — sculptor creates a synthetic woman brought to life by Aphrodite → early android animation myth.

Talos of Crete — bronze giant patrolling the island; → robotic sentinel.

Hephaestus’s mechanical servants — self-moving golden maidens → robot assistants.

Helios’s son Phaethon — seizes the solar chariot, loses control → allegory of human misuse of cosmic technology.

Daedalus & Icarus — inventors of mechanical wings; human-made flight technology defying natural limits.