document updated 9 years ago, on Jan  6, 2016
Modern automata artists
Thomas Kuntz
    professional artist
Jacques Monestier
    larger public pieces, professional artist, France
François Junod
    human figures, beautiful and quite sophisticated, professional artist with a 
5+ person team assisting
Arthur Ganson
    simple but captivating, professional artist
Chomick+Meder
    human figures, professional artists
Al Conquergood
    hand-cranked, mostly wood mechanisms
Dug North
    hand-cranked, mostly wood mechanisms
Naoki Harada
    marbles, amateur
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Joe Jones in the United States
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Jones_(Fluxus_musician)
    http://vimeo.com/7695193#t=0m45s