1979 – Electromechanical Household Servant – Reynolds (American)
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Month: March 2010
1979 – “Vintage the Robot” – Tony Ellis (British)
SERVO 01.2004 Vintage Anthony Ellis, Conceptioneer (inventor / product developer, www.appliedmachineintelligence.co.uk) is the trailblazing roboticist behind our first modern robot from the past. If you're new to robotics, or haven't kept up with news from across the pond, you probably haven't heard of this "vintage" robot. Meet Anthony Ellis' 23-year-old creation, appropriately named Vintage. Vintage came …
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1977 – “Maizie the Robot” – David Strange (British)
Maisie the Robot (c1977) with David Strange. From a comment below, David Strange informs me that the robot he called Maizie was a maze solving robot whilst he was working for the BBC Open University. It was used in several programmes on cognitive psychology. Thanks David. From further correspondence with David (Dec 2015): The whole of …
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1966 – Able Mabel – Meredith Thring (British)
A prop for a Tomorrow's World segment in 1966 showing what Robots would be like in 1976. Although some parts appear to be electrically controlled (e.g. the popping eyes which are connected to the antenna 'ears'). the black slot is probably for the hidden operator to see what they are doing. The arms …
1972 – Cybernetic Penguin – (Russian)
The poor image quality of the article prevents me from performing OCR and translation.