New simulations suggest that the Antikythera Mechanism may have jammed within months, as small errors in the spacing.

Give robots a specific job—say, placing a can on a conveyor belt in a factory—and they can be extremely efficient. But in less-structured environments with varied tasks, even seemingly simple things ...

If you couldn’t tell by the name alone, the Antikythera Mechanism was a device created by the ancient Greeks back in 100 BCE.