{"product_id":"academy-leonardo-da-vinci-self-propelling-cart-18129","title":"Academy Leonardo da Vinci Self Propelling Cart (18129)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSketched by Leonardo da Vinci around 1478, the self propelling cart is often called the world's first robot. Driven by coiled springs and steered by a programmable arrangement of pegs, it could be set to follow a course with no rider at all, some four centuries before anything comparable was built. Academy's kit assembles into a working model that actually runs, making it as much a piece of engineering history as a display piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe first robot, five hundred years early.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Academy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55093008040277,"sku":"18129","price":12.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/monstermodelsandgames.co.uk\/products\/academy-leonardo-da-vinci-self-propelling-cart-18129","provider":"Monster Models and Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}