In the age of AI and rapidly increasing technologies, robots are becoming commonplace. But what if I told you that there is a 187-year-old robot clarinetist, and it’s missing its clarinet? Due to the mass manufacturing of clockwork devices at the beginning of the 19th century, inventors began creating toys and other automatons using these technologies. Although The Android Clarinettist was quite advanced for its time, there were other automaton musicians of other instruments such as flute, drums, and even organ. In 1838, Dutch inventor Cornelis Jacobus van Oeckelen (1798-1865) created an automaton clarinetist (named The Android Clarinettist) which performed, bowed, and even wet its reed in preparation for its…