Cinema's first robot is rediscovered after 129 years

Claim

The Library of Congress rediscovered a lost 1897 Georges Méliès film believed to contain cinema's first robot, a child-sized automaton that grows and attacks a human, while Dimensional's open-source agent gained understanding of physical space and runs on a Unitree humanoid.

Reported metric: 129 years

Reporting date: 2026-03-04 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to March 4, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)