Editing Humanoid robot (section)

=== Middle East ===
In the 13th century, a Muslim engineer named [[Ismail al-Jazari]] designed various humanoid automata. He created a waitress robot that would dispense drinks from a liquid reservoir and appear out of an automatic door to serve them.<ref>{{Cite web|last=@NatGeoUK|date=2020-08-01|title=Medieval robots? They were just one of this Muslim inventor's creations|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2020/08/medieval-robots-they-were-just-one-of-this-muslim-inventors|access-date=2021-11-03|website=National Geographic|language=en-gb}}</ref> Another automaton he created was used for hand washing to refill a basin with water after being drained.<ref name="Rosheim22">{{Cite book|last=Rosheim|first=Mark E.|url=https://archive.org/details/robotevolutionde0000rosh/page/9|title=Robot Evolution: The Development of Anthrobotics|publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons|Wiley]]-[[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|IEEE]]|year=1994|isbn=0-471-02622-0|pages=[https://archive.org/details/robotevolutionde0000rosh/page/9 9–10]}}</ref>