Robots in Art Timeline

This page will contain a timeline showing significant robots in art events, and dates showing the creation or announcement of the robots.

For the moment, it is more a list of what is going to be placed in this blog. If image is clickable, then a blog post exists for it. Check out the updates page for recent posts.

 1920- Capt A.J. Roberts
 1956- CYSP-1 Nicolas Schöffer
 1963 Electric Actors – Bruce Lacey 
 1964 – John Fare the Performance Artist using Robotic Props
 1964- K456 – Nam Jun Paik & Shuya Abe
 1965 R.O.S.A.B.O.S.O.M. – Bruce Lacey
 1965 – Edward Kienholz "The Friendly Grey Computer"
 1965 – Enrique Castro-Cid - Robot Installation
 1966 - James Seawright
 1966 R/C Tortoise – Lalanne
 1967 – Bruce Lacey – Mate
 1967 R/C "Arthur" – Jacques Monestier
 1965-70 Robert Breer
 1968 – Cybertheater – Lev Nusberg
 1968- Toy-Pet  Plexi-Ball - Parkinson & Martin  
 1969 – Cybernetic Sculpture – Les Levine
 1969-70 SEEK Negroponte
 1971 - "COSME", Le Chevalier de L'Espace – Jeanne Renucci-Convers
 1976- AARON   - Harold Cohen
 1975-6 – Jim Pallas "Blue Wazoo"
 1976c- ON/OFF – Clayton Bailey
 1978 – “Mechanimals” Illustrations by Murray Tinkelmann
 1980- Fuyo Robot Theater
 19xx Dead Chickens
 19xx Arthur Ganson
 19xx Gilbert Peyre
 19xx Edward Ihnatowicz  
 19xx Jim Whiting
 19xx- Eduardo Kac
 19xx Kraftwerk
 19xx – Strandbeest – Theo Jansen
 19xx Chico MacMurtrie / Amorphous
 19xx Mark Pauline / SRL
 19xx Pask -Colloquy
 19xx Roland Emett
 19xx Tim Lewis
 19xx Kenji Yanobe
 Kenneth Rinaldo
 Norman White
 Louis Philippe Demers and Bill Vorn
 Daniel Depoutot
 1967 – "Kaliedophonic Dog", "Rosebud Annunciator" (1969) – Stephan von Huene
 1968-9 – "Homo Cyberneticum" ("Cybernetic Man") series – Paul van Hoeydonck
 1969 – Tim Hunkin "Mechanical Man"
 BBM
 Paul McCarthy
 Simon Penny
 Alan Rath
 19xx Stelarc
2001 – Leonel Moura
Tim Hawkinson
  Heri Dono
 2003 - Christiaan Zwanikken's Robo-Donkey
Chris Burdon
more
 
Early Drawing, Writing and Painting Machines (under construction)
 
1770c- Jaquet-Droz Scribe 1772 Draughtsman
 1760s- Friedrick von Knaus
Philadelphia Doll – Maillardet Bros
 1895- Pocock's Mechanical Artist (Toy)
 18xx – Georges Mieles / Robert-Houdin - Drawing Automaton
 1920 – Marcel Duchamp – Rotary Glass Plates
 1928- "Gakutensoku" by Makoto Nishimura
 1929 – Lady Drawing Robot
 1955-59 – Jean Tinguely – prototypes & Meta-matics
 1960c – Bernard Smith's Painting Machine
 1962- Raymond Auger's Painting Robot
 1964 – David Medalla "Sand Machine"
 1976- AARON   - Harold Cohen
 1977-8 – Anton Perich Painting Machine
 1988 – Rebecca Horn Painting Machine
 1982- Arthur Ganson Writing Machine "Go Faster"
 1984-6 – Theo Jansen Painting Machine
 1993 – Tim Hawkinson "Signature"
1990 – Angela Bulloch Painting machine "Betaville" & "Mudslinger" 1995
1995 – Natasha Kidd Painting Machines
1996 – Mark Hoskin "Word Turn"
 1998 – David Taylor – Pollockizer
 1999- Carlos Corpa Drawing Machine
  2000 – Tim Lewis "Auto-Dali Prosthetic"
  2001-4 MEART – SymbioticA Rat Neuron Drawing Machine
  "Hex" Discworld computer output device
 
 
Early Mechanical Talking Machines (under construction)
 
1770c- Friedrick von Knaus talking machine
  1771- Erasmus Darwin Wooden mouth
  1769-91- Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen
  1778- Abbe Mical Talking heads
1779- Christian Kratzenstein's resonators
1806- Posch Speaking Machine (German)
1823- Maelzel's Talking dolls and The Turk
1828- Robertson
  1835- Charles Wheatstone
  1840- Joseph Faber's Euphonia
Alexander Graham & Melville Bell
  1837 R.R. Reisz
1922-J. Q. Stewart's  Electrical analog of the vocal organs
  1939 – Homer Dudley – Voder
1950- Dunn's Electrical Vocal Tract
  Martin Riches – MotorMouth & Talking Machine
  1999?- Nicolas Anatol Baginsky – "Elizabeth Gardner"
200x- Jim Whiting ElectroMechanical voice box

  2004- Maywa Denki "Seamoons" Artificial Vocal Cords
  2005c- Waseda Talking Robots – Kentaro Takada and Atsuo Takanishi
 2008 – Kagawa Artificial voice 
 
Early Musical Automatons, Androids and Robots (under construction)
 
 
Other Art Machines (Australian)
 
 1972-4 Josef Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski - Kinetic and Laser art
 1973- Trefor Prest's BioMechanical Sculptures
 
Related Art Work
 
 Raymond Morales Metal Sculptures at Musee Morales