The
Jaquet-Droz automata, among all the numerous
automata built by the Jaquet-Droz family, refer to three doll automata built between 1768 and 1774 by
Pierre Jaquet-Droz, his son Henri-Louis, and Jean-Frédéric Leschot: the
musician, the
draughtsman and the
writer. The dolls are still functional, and can be seen at the
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire of
Neuchâtel, in
Switzerland. They are considered to be among the remote ancestors of modern computers.