Did Ancient Civilizations Build Humanoid Robots?

What if humanoid robots were 3,000 years old? Today's bots can breakdance, take out the trash, sort Amazon packages, run marathons, and soon will explore the surface of Mars. They're designed to make life easier—do things we can't, or don't want to do. Stories from thousands of years ago describe picture-perfect descriptions of today's latest and greatest tech, from ancient China, to India, Greece, Japan, Prague, and later, even the Renaissance. Did humanoid robots really appear in ancient times? If they did, were they fueled by a forgotten kind of AI, bestowed by Gods and magic—or something else entirely?