Italian artist Amedeo Capelli of Stoccafisso Design, who creates wonderful wooden mechanical toys, used his hand-carved series of whimsical shrimp automata to make it look as if they were going on ...

Automata is the name given to these mechanical toys that work with never a chip ... and other found objects incorporates carved wooden figures, human, animal and mythical, that bleep, ring ...

The Who’s lead singer Roger Daltrey and his wife Heather are auctioning a selection of rare mechanical ... has been forgotten. Automata might look like children’s toys, but they were actually ...