Cups And Balls Robot Gives Ancient Magic Trick A Twist (VIDEO)

It's a classic magic trick thought to date back over 2,000 years ago.

Involving three cups and three small balls, the performer creates a spectacle by appearing to make the balls pass through the solid bottoms of the cups, disappear, jump and generally bemuse and bewitch spectators.

So how about when a 'robot' does it? A wooden robot wearing sunglasses? A wooden robot powered by a hand-wound set of cogs and wheels?

Yep, that's pretty weird...