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 ...

Today, mechanical artworks and toys have become even ... Spooner has been designing automata since the mid-1970s. His works are mostly constructed in wood and perform humorous actions, often ...

That’s why this wooden submarine by Taiwanese carpenter Chi-Chun Yin is so mind-boggling to me. It’s incredibly detailed and intricate. And it contains animal automata that come to life when a ...

With the crank of a handle, the push of a button or the tug of a string, wooden figures in his creations move as if by magic. Yu, 29, is a maker of automata, self-propelled, artistic mechanical ...