Was the Mechanical Bird from Constantinople, as shown in the movie "The King", a "thing" in late Medieval Europe?

by gabrielfrh

First of all, sorry for my english, it's not my native language.

As the title says, in the movie "The King" form Netflix, wich "kinda" depicts the rise of Henry V of England, when he becomes king, one of the gifts he recieves from the Doge of Venecia is a mechanical bird from Constantinople. I know these artifacts where created in antiquity, being Archytas of Tarentum a pioneer in "automatons".

Did this knowledge pervive to the very last stages of the eastern roman empire? Could Byzantines in early 1400 create such a thing? were this mechanical gifts a thing in late medieval Europe?

Thx!

sketchydavid

Automata were a “thing” in medieval Europe! u/sunagainstgold has an excellent post here about medieval automata, both real and imagined, that is very interesting and worth a read.

And for the Byzantines specifically, check out this post from u/arivederlestelle.