The history of the creation of machines began a very long time ago and over the two and a half thousand years of their existence they have gone from a simple water mill to an autonomous machine – a robot endowed with some abilities inherent only to humans. Using biological terminology, we can say that machines have continuously evolved in the process of their historical development, and since they are created by man and, in a certain sense, model the movements of his organs, the search for commonality between machines and biological objects turns out to be completely legitimate, especially with the popular presentation of the theory of machines and mechanisms.