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This is emphatically not a robot-type contraption, not by a long shot–it just happens (if you look at it in a certain way) to look like one. The automatic man was still a bit away, though Steam People and the like had certainly made appearances decades before this one.
The toys–Crandall’s Acrobats, patented in 1867–came in boxes, a number of “acrobats” per box, as seen in the following post from Tracy’s Toys blog: