Entry #2

The video was pretty cool. The calligraphy and archery karakuri dolls were amazing. I would imagine it probably took months of non-stop work to make them, if not longer. The fine-tuning process of ensuring the movements were perfect probably took the most time. I also think the upkeep of those dolls must be insane (if any moving part fails, replacement and recalibration is probably a nightmare), and their value is likely in the millions (in US dollars). If I'm understanding the video right, basically a man started the whole thing with his dolls, then moved on to making machinery that were more useful to people. Then other people starting doing it and using the concepts he created, and many companies can trace their roots back to him, the biggest of which is Toshiba. The flashback about the little kid with the dubbing was hilarious. I'm not really sure what the point of dubbing is, but it was fantastic. The final parts of the video seemed to show modern devices that could easily transport very heavy parts (like for an assembly line) which were based on the concept of a tea-carrying karakuri doll, and a device that could grab very delicate parts precisely and move and place them carefully that was based on (or rather, similar in concept to) the bow and arrow karakuri doll which grabbed each arrow precisely. Overall it was a cool video, though I didn't understand a lot of the words used.