Updates pre-2015 - cyberneticzoo.com

Updates to the cyberneticzoo.com website. See also the Cybernetic Zoo facebook page for more commentary on updates.

pre-2015

31 Dec 2014 Added Unknown Deep Diving Armours .
31 Dec 2014 Added 1977 – Deep Diving Apparatus by Alistair Carnegie.
29 Dec 2014 Added 1914-1937 – Various Diving Armour by Neufeldt and Kuhnke.
29 Dec 2014 Added 1935 – Diving Armour by Roberto Galeazzi.
20 Dec 2014 Added current image of 1966 Tinker the Robot by Dennis Weston.
13 Dec 2014 Added 1906 – Diving Armour by Friedrich Gall .
10 Dec 2014 Added 1969 – JIM Atmospheric Diving Suit by Mike Humphrey, Mike Borrow, Richard Tuson and Joseph Salim Peress.
10 Dec 2014 Added 1954 – Pressure Suit by James Hart and Theodore Hart.
6 Dec 2014 Added 1965 – Diving Suit by Henry Martinez and Charles Opalek.
6 Dec 2014 Added 1965 – “XU-1″ Deep Sea Diving Suit by Fonda-Bonardi / Buckley for Litton Systems.
29 Nov 2014 Added 1934 – Deep Sea Diving Suit by Thomas Connelly.
29 Nov 2014 Added 1927 – Flexible Diving Armour by Karl Hippsich.
28 Nov 2014 Added 1930 – Joseph Salim Peress' “Tritonia” Diving Armour.
24 Nov 2014 Added 1921-5 – Diving Armour by Joseph Salim Peress.
24 Nov 2014 Added 1918 – Diving Armor by Rudi De Graff.
24 Nov 2014 Added 1917 – Diving Armor by James F. Long.
24 Nov 2014 Added 1880 – Armored Diving Suit by Stephen P. M. Tasker.
23 Nov 2014 Added 1916 – Submarine Armor Suit by Frank W. Walters.
23 Nov 2014 Added 1919 – Diver’s Armored Suit by Victor Campos.
23 Nov 2014 Added 1917 – Diving Armor Suit by Benjamin Franklin Leavitt.
16 Nov 2014 Added 1917 – Submarine Armor by Charles H. Jackson .
16 Nov 2014 Added 1918 – Submarine Armor by Josef Kamieniecki .
16 Nov 2014 Added 1916 – Submarine Armor by William S. Boyd .
12 Nov 2014 Added 1902-7 – “Iron Man” Diving Apparatus by Capt. Enos B. Petrie .
9 Nov 2014 Added 1914-28 – Submarine Armor by Harry L. Bowdoin.
7 Nov 2014 Added 1910 – Submarine Armor by Chester E. Macduffee.
1 Nov 2014 Added 1905 – Diving Dress by M. de Pluvy.
1 Nov 2014 Added 1904-6 – Cuirassed Diving Suit by Guiseppe Restucci.
1 Nov 2014 Added 1897 – Diving Apparatus by John and George Day.
31 Oct 2014 Added 1890 – Crustacean Diving Dress by Col. William Carey.
30 Oct 2014 Added 1878 – Diving Suit by the Carmagnolle Bros.
28 Oct 2014 Added 1856 – Phillips Submarine Exploring Armor by Lodner Phillips.
27 Oct 2014 Added new section on Early Underwater Manipulators and Robots.
19 Oct 2014 Added 1912 – Dreadnought Wheel and “Big Lizzie” by Frank Bottrill.
19 Oct 2014 Added 1899 – Walking Wheel by James C. Anderson.
19 Oct 2014 Added 1846 – Walking Wheel by James Boydell.
18 Oct 2014 Added 1967 – Toy Space Crawlers.
17 Oct 2014 Updated 1961 – Moonwalker Lunar Rover – Space General Corp. with a new video clip.
15 Oct 2014 Added 1983 – Walking Wheel by Vladimir Ischein.
15 Oct 2014 Added 1973 – Wheel Walker by Ralph Mosher.
15 Oct 2014 Updated 1947 – Anatole the Robot with more pics and corrections.
13 Oct 2014 Added 1985 – Nuclear Maintenance Robot “AMOOTY” by Tokyo Uni / Toshiba.
11 Oct 2014 Added 1973 – “Robbie” the Pulpit Robot by Rev. Ron Mackenzie.
10 Oct 2014 Added 1940 – “Roll-Oh” the Domestic Robot.
9 Oct 2014 Added 1958-62 – "Beetle" Mobile Manipulator – G.E. Corp..
9 Oct 2014 Added 1960 onwards – Miscellaneous Mobile Manipulator Arms.
9 Oct 2014 Added 1985 – ACEC Mobile Inspection Vehicle.
8 Oct 2014 Added 1970-1 – CURV Mobile Linkage Manipulator – Naval Undersea Research.
7 Oct 2014 Added 1960 – KOELSCH Mobile Manipulator.
6 Oct 2014 Added 1984-93 – Nuclear Inspection Centaur Robot – ART Project.
4 Oct 2014 Added 1955 – Manned Mobile Remote Manipulator.
3 Oct 2014 Added 1930 – Teleoperated “Flying Robot” by Russell Keaton.
2 Oct 2014 Added 1929 – “Robot #792″ Mobile Remote Robot by Philip Francis Nowlan / Dick Calkins.
1 Oct 2014 Added 1975 – “Roboteer” Mobile Remote Manipulator by MBAssociates.
30 Sep 2014 Added 1976 – MF3 Manipulator Vehicle by Köhler.
29 Sep 2014 Added 1966 – "Herman" Mobile Remote Manipulator by PaR Systems.
26 Sep 2014 Added 1960 – “Minotaur” Remote Manipulator by General Mills.
25 Sep 2014 Added 1970-2 – “Virgule” Remote-Controlled Manipulator by Jean Vertut.
24 Sep 2014 Added 1974 – Remote-Controlled Manipulator Vehicle by KHG.
23 Sep 2014 Added 1963 – “MRMU” Mobile Remote Manipulator Unit by FMC Corp.
22 Sep 2014 Added 1961 – "Little Ranger" Mobile Remote Manipulator by General Mills.
21 Sep 2014 Added 1953 – G.E. “O-Man” Manipulator.
20 Sep 2014 Added 1954 – Teledoctor by Hugo Gernsback.
19 Sep 2014 Added 1958 – Mobile Remote Servo-manipulator by Ray Goertz et al.
18 Sep 2014 Added 1954 – ElectroMechanical Manipulator by Ray Goertz.
17 Sep 2014 Added 1928 – "The Psychophonic Nurse" (Fiction) by David H. Keller.
16 Sep 2014 Added 1965 – G.E. Lifting Boom – Edwin E Ziegler / Ralph Mosher .
15 Sep 2014 Added 1989 – MOSAP (MObile Surface APplication traverse vehicle) by NASA .
14 Sep 2014 Added 1940 onwards – Miscellaneous Lunar and Off World Rovers with Manipulators Concepts.
13 Sep 2014 – Added 1965 onwards – Miscellaneous Lunar and Off World Walker Concepts.
13 Sep 2014 – Added 1957 onwards – Miscellaneous Space Tugs with Manipulator Arms (Illustrations).
11 Sep 2014 – Added 1983 – Beam Assembly Teleoperator (BAT) by University of Maryland.
10 Sep 2014 – Added 1959 – Lunar Construction Vehicle from Project HORIZON by the U.S. Army.
10 Sep 2014 – Added 1984-7 – Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle (OMV) + Kits.
9 Sep 2014 – Added 1982-4 – Telepresence Servicer Unit (TSU) by Akin/Minsky.
8 Sep 2014 – Added 1955 – Space Tug (Illustration) by N. Kolchitsky.
7 Sep 2014 – Added 1985 – Manned Autonomous Work Station (MAWS) by Brand Griffin.
6 Sep 2014 – Added 1978 – Manned Remote Work Station (MRWS) by Grumman.
3 Sep 2014 – cyberneticzoo.com's 5th birthday. 725 individual posts and plenty more to come!
2 Sep 2014 – Added 1962 – Manned Auxillary Fitter Craft with Mandible (Concept) by the Sperry Gyroscope Company.
1 Sep 2014 – Added 1979 – Manned Orbital Transfer Vehicle (MOTV) by Grumman.
31 Aug 2014 – Added 1954 – "Bottle Suit" by Wernher von Braun / Walt Disney.
29 Aug 2014 – Added 1970 – Experimental Teleoperator System (T/S) by NASA.
28 Aug 2014 – Added 1987 – Flight Telerobotic Servicer (FTS) by Grumman.
27 Aug 2014 – Added 1987 – Flight Telerobotic Servicer (FTS) by Martin Marietta.
26 Aug 2014 – Added 1949 – Space Tug (Illustration) by Klaus Bürgle.
25 Aug 2014 – Added 1971 – Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer (MULE) Concept by NASA.
24 Aug 2014 – Added 1970 – “STEM” Space Manipulator Arm by George Klein, Spar Aerospace.
23 Aug 2014 – Added 1972 – Extendable Stiff Arm Manipulator (ESAM) by Marshall Space Flight Center.
22 Aug 2014 – Added 1971 – Space Tug (Concept) – MSFC/Boeing.
21 Aug 2014 – Added 1970 – Space Tug (Concept) by MSFC/Boeing.
20 Aug 2014 – Added 1972 – Rancho Anthropomorphic Manipulator (RAM) – Rancho Los Amigos Hospital.
19 Aug 2014 – Added 1988 – P.O.W.E.R. Arm by University of Alabama / Wyle Laboratories.
18 Aug 2014 – Added 1972 – Free Flyer with Manipulator Arms by Bell / Rancho Los Amigos.
11 Aug 2014 – Added 1962 – Nonanthropomorphic Space Suit (Concept) by Douglas Aircraft Corp.
10 Aug 2014 – Added 1965-8 – Space Pod from 2001: A Space Odyssey by Kubrick with Clarke.
9 Aug 2014 – Added 1971-2 – Apollo-Soyuz Shuttle Manipulator concept by Caldwell Johnson.
8 Aug 2014 – Added 1968 – Android Space Manipulator (Concept) by General Electric.
7 Aug 2014 – Added 1973-8 – Daedalus ‘Wardens’ (Concept) by Grant et al .
6 Aug 2014 – Added 1968 – Serpentuator by Frederic E. Wells.
5 Aug 2014 – Added 1976 – Manned Space Pod with Manipulators (Concept) by Boeing being an update and split-off from this earlier post – 1965 – Manned Space Pod with Manipulators (Concept) by Boeing.
4 Aug 2014 – Added 1961 – Space Maintenance Capsule and Adapter – NORAIR .
3 Aug 2014 – Added 1961 – Manned Space Manipulators by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.
2 Aug 2014 – Added 1960 – Space Manipulators by General Mills.
1 Aug 2014 – Added 1967 – Space Work Platform by the Bendix Company.
30 Jul 2014 – Added 1964 – SCHMOO Unmanned Space Repair Craft by Lockheed Company.
29 Jul 2014 – Added 1961 – Humpty Dumpty Space Capsule by Douglas Aircraft Company.
28 Jul 2014 – Added 1960 – Project Mercury Converted Capsule by NASA.
27 Jul 2014 – Added 1961 – Orbital Space Tug concept by General Electric.
21 Jul 2014 – Added 1958 – Astrotug by Lockheed (American) and 1960 – SLOMAR Space Tug by The Martin Company .
19 Jul 2014 – Added 1959-61 – Concept O-9 Manned Utility Tug plus other conceptions and 1965 – Manned Space Pod with Manipulators (Concept) by Boeing.
18 July 2014 – Added 1960 – "REMORA" Manned Space Manipulator by Bell Aerosystems , the 1966-7 – Space Taxi (Concept) by LTV , and updated the 1959 MOBOT 1 by Hughes Aircraft and the 1964 MOBOT Mark II by Hughes Aircraft .
16 July 2014 – David Abrahamson advised me today of the passing of his father, Dr Stephen Abrahamson who was the key person behind the amazing "Sim One" medical robot of 1967-8. Vale Dr. Abrahamson. I've also added a new image and patent information I had
16 Jul 2014 – Added 1967 "Space Horse" concept by LTV.
14 Jul 2014 – Added 1962 Unmanned space Mobot (concept) by Hughes Aircraft.
30 Jun 2014 – Added 1923 – Walking Lunar Rover (Science Fiction) by Homer Eon Flint , 1901-3 – Walking Lunar Vehicle (Science Fiction) by Jerzy Zulawski, 1959 – Lunar Robot MOBOT (Concept) by Hughes Aircraft and 1960 – "Homobile" Lunar Rover by Hugo Gernsback .
27 Jun 2014 – Added 1976 – Pneumatic Exoskeleton Prosthesis by Pierre Rabischong and 1971 – A computer controlled multi-task powered exoskeleton for paraplegic patients by Jack George Grundmann / Ali Seireg.
09 Jun 2014 – Added the 1948 GE Master-Slave Manipulator by John Payne , the 1950c "The Iron Hand" Industrial Robot at Erie Engineering Company , and the 1950 Remote-control Manipulator by Art Youmans . Updated the GE Hardiman Man-Amplifier .
31 May 2014 – A quiet month this month. I've added the 1962 Table-Clearing Robot by Meredith Thring.
28 Apr 2014 – Added 1961 – Jacobsen Automatic Lawnmower by Gordon Carlson , 1952 – Stewart Automatic Lawn Mower by Sterling Stewart and 1952 – Remote Controlled Lawn Mower (Patent) by Barton G. Siebring .
4 Mar 2014 – Added 1991/2002 – Floorbotics Robotic Vacuum Cleaners by G. T. Duncan Ashworth and 1926 – Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace) by Fritz Kahn .
20 Feb 2014 – Added 1959 – Webb Radio-controlled Electric Lawnmower and 1925 – Teledactyl Remote Manipulator .
3 Feb 2014 – Added 1948 – Ueno Zoo Robotized “Monkey Train” by Jiro Aizawa.
23 Jan 2014 – Added 1916 – "King Grey" the Electric Titan by Vern Pieper and 1933 – Giant Walking Bridge by M. Clemients .
17 Jan 2014 – Added 1957 – "Otto" the Robot and 1935 – Unknown Mechanical Man .
6 Jan 2014 – Added 1950 – N.S.U. Motorcycle Robot Driver.
4 Jan 2014 – Added 1964 – Jayson the Robot.
3 Jan 2014 – Added 1959 – Cybernetic Mice play Hockey.
1 Jan 2014 – Added 1937 – A Radio Robot – Everard Edmonds and updated 1957 – "Gygan" aka "Cygan" aka "Mr Moto" – Piero Fiorito (Italian) with new images.
26 Dec 2013 – Added 1932 – The Iron Man and 1933 – "Tillie the Technocrat" Robot .
22 Dec 2013 – Added 1934 – Macaz the Cuban Robot.
18 Nov 2013 – Added 1938 – Remote-Controlled Lawn Mower – Alvin Lodge , 1950 – Radio-controlled Lawnmower – Jim Walker , 1950 – Fairbanks-Morse "Grass Finder" Rotary Power Lawn Mower and 1954 – Radio-controlled Lawnmower – William M. Brobeck .
24 Oct 2013 – Updated C.C. Roe and Captain Rowe's Steam men, after new evidence, as being created by the same person albeit different spellings of same name over time.
24 Oct 2013 – Updated 1955-62 – Painting Machine – Raymond N. Auger with date changes and more images plus inventor of Fluidic Amplifier.
10 Oct 2013 – Added 1997/2002 – Electrolux Trilobite Robotic Vacuum Cleaner.
9 Oct 2013 – Added Noo-Noo Robotic Vacuum Cleaner (Prop) and 1983 – Household Robot with Floor sweeper and mop (Concept).
29 Sept 2013 – Added 1990-2002 – Panasonic Vacuum Cleaning Robot.
5 Sept 2013 – Gygan/Cygan sold for £17,500 in an auction at Christie's.
3 Sept 2013 – cyberneticzoo.com's 4th anniversary! 694 individual posts and still more to go.
30 Aug 2013 – I'm on holidays, but had a new page and post ready so as not to have a null month. Added a new page on Early Automatic and Robotic Floor Cleaners Including these new post additions: 1899 – L'AN 2000 Floor Sweeper Prediction , 1955 – Sonic Broom , 1957 – RCA/Whirlpool HECK and Automatic Floor Cleaner , 1962c – Jetson's Autovac , 1966 – "Glass Bottomed Boat" Robot Cleaner , 1968 – Little Dragon Carpet Cleaner , 1969 – Computopia Robot Vacuum Cleaner , 1978 – “Chiritori” Remote Control Vacuum Cleaner by Nintendo , 1981 – ComRo 1 Domestic Robot with Vacuum Attachment , 1985 – Tomy Dustbot , 1991 – HomeR – Frank Jenkins Vacuuming Robot , 1991 – “Televac” Automatic Vacuum Cleaner and 1997 – Fifth Element Robot Vacuum Cleaner .
23 July 2013 – Added 1958 – MASCOT Remote Servo-manipulator .
22 July 2013 – Updated 1957 – "Artificial Muscle" – Joseph Laws McKibben and 1957 – "Gygan" aka "Cygan" aka "Mr Moto" with new images.
14 July 2013 – Added 1925c – "Rose-Marie" the Robot with Will Mackford , 1925c – "Rose-Mary" the Human Automaton , 1910 – Das Moto-Baby , 1912 – Moto Pheno , 1920 – Shrozo the Robot Girl and 1910 – Moto-Phoso .
10 July 2013 – Added 1964-5 Robot Art by Enrique Castro-Cid .
3 July 2013 – Added 1959 – Sverdlovsk Cybernetic Tortoise and 1982-4 – MAR-1 Agricultural Robot.
2 July 2013 – Updated Labyrinth's Humongous Robot.
1 July 2013 – Updated Oleg Sokol's Circus Robot and changed category from Pseudo to Humanoid Robot.
26 June 2013 – Added Peter Holland's walking models CABER and Crater Scraper.
23 June 2013 – Corrected information on von Bechtolsheim's 1930 Walking Car.
21 June 2013 – Added pics to Ducrocq's cybernetic animals.
18 June 2013 – Updated Hombre FORCYLOR and "Freddie Ford" Promotional Robot with a new image. Updated the Soviet 1960's robots Ð¢Ð£Ðœ (TUM) , Ð¡ÐµÐ¿ÑƒÐ»ÑŒÐºÐ° (Sepulka) the Guide Robot , ARS (ÐÐ Ð¡) Robot and the Neptune (ÐÐµÐ¿Ñ‚ÑƒÐ½), Electron (ÑÐ»ÐµÐºÑ‚Ñ€Ð¾Ð½) robots all with multiple images.
16 June 2013 – Updated the 1966 "Moonwalker" Disability Walker and the 1956 CYSP-1 by Nicolas Schöffer with new images.
15 June 2013 – Updated Ivan Sutherland's M. Versatilis with a new image.
11 June 2013 – Added 1971 Stepping/Walking Machine by Katysu [ÐšÐ°Ñ‚Ñ‹Ñ] . Updated 1972 Manned Hexapod (Model) by Ignatiev .
7 June 2013 – Added 1962 Kirov Robots .
28 May 2013 – Added 1966 Kybernetisches Demonstrationsmodell Schildkröte and 1950 Tinius the Cybernetic Turtle .
24 May 2013 – Updated Garco with more Gog promotional images.
20 May 2013 – Updated Cosmos the Robot with original inventor's name. Generally having a quiet month.
18 Apr 2013 – Updated Anatole / Gustave robot with original inventor's name.
11 Apr 2013 – Updated Charles Lawson's robots (here and here) with extra photos and details.
6 Apr 2013 – Added Devol's patent filed in 1954 and granted in 1961 , 1959 "TransfeRobot" by Shelley , 1950 General Electric Robotic Manipulator and 1892 Crane by Seward Babbitt .
31 Mar 2013 – Added 1934-78 Spray-paint robot patents by Pollard Jr, Pollard, Roselund and DeVilbiss Comp.
13 Mar 2013 – Updated Claus Scholz' "MM7" with new images, as well as a new video clip. "MM7" is currently featuring in a robot exhibition at the Technical Museum in Vienna .
12 Mar 2013 – Added 1965-7 Trallfa spray-paint robot by Ole Molaug and Sverre Bergene.
7 Mar 2013 – Added 1954 "Positioning or Manipulating Apparatus" patent by Cyril Kenward , "VERSATRAN" Industrial Robot by Harry Johnson & Veljko Milenkovic , "FLEXIMAN" by Anthony Kaye and "PLANOBOT" Pick-and-Place Industrial Robot by Joe B. Brown .
7 Mar 2013 – Updated "Anthrophor" with further information.
6 Mar 2013 – Added "Mystic Mec" by Chris Shute .
19 Feb 2013 – Added the first known pick-and-place industrial robot from 1937 – The Robot Gargantua by "Bill" Griffith P. Taylor.
15 Feb 2013 – Added More Meccano Walking Machines & Robots , 1935 Lifelike Robot by Milton Tenenbaum , 1933 Cocktail Robot , 1929 "M. M." the Mechanische Mensch (Mechanical Man) by P. Geerlviet Jr. , 1971 "COSME", Le Chevalier de L'Espace by Jeanne Renucci-Convers and 1957 Remote-Controlled Painting Machine by Akira Kanayama .
12 Feb 2013 – Added 1965 Meccano Walking Horse and Chariot by Andreas Konkoly .
31 Jan 2013 – Added Early Meccano Robot Models.
27 Jan 2013 – Added the 1988 "Wendell" the Unicycle Rider by Garner Holt , the 1936 Gyro-Cycle by Townend , the 1950 Toy Unicycle Pedaling Clown by Perez and the 1981 Walking Gyro by Jameson .
26 Jan 2013 – Added 1928 – Meccano Walking Tractor and 1952 – Meccano Giant Walking Dragline .
24 Jan 2013 – At the suggestion of Antoni Gual, I started a new, small category on Pedalling and Pseudo-pedalling robots and machines at the bottom of the Walking Machines page.
23 Jan 2013 – Added the 1965 Meccano Promo Robot ,Meccano Walking Rickshaws by Andreas Konkoly and Phil Edwards and early Erector Robot Models.
6 Jan 2013 – Added 1953 "El Chispas" (Sparks) Robot by Antoni Gual Segura , 1913 Giant Mechanical Mosquito by Dr. Gustav Luchy , 1957 Walking Pram , 1964c Walking Wheel Stair Climbers by Meredith Thring , 1907 Walking Wheel Carriage by Henry S. Hele-Shaw , 1900 Pedrail Walking Wheel by Bramah J.Diplock and 1890 Walking Wheel by Rescue B. Page .
4 Jan 2013 – Seasons greetings to you all! Added 1979 "Meccanoids" Meccano Kit , 1994 Profi Bionic by Fischertechnik and 1964-70 Rotoped Walking Wheel by Julius Mackerle .
26 Dec 2012 – Added 1968 “Mechanimal” Walking Models by Masahiro Mori and Ryuichi Tomiya and 1978 “Mechanimals” Illustrations by Murray Tinkelmann .
20 Dec 2012 – Added 1954 Square Walking Wheel by Albert Sfredda , 1950 Elliptical Walking Wheels by John Kopczynski , 1974 Japanese Square-Wheeled Bicycle , 1931 Shoe-Wheeled "Walking" Bicycle by Marie Glory , 1982 Japanese Powered "Walking Wheel" Vehicle and 1952 "Gyro Gearloose" Walking Inventions by Carl Barks .
20 Dec 2012 – Just publishing a few more posts to get in before the end of the world!
13 Dec 2012 – Added 1917 Fageol 9-12 “Walking” Tractor , 1963c Two-Legged Walker by Meredith Thring , 1942 Hopping Tank by Henry Wallace , 1967 "Lunar Leaper" by Howard Seifert and the 1983-7 PrOP-F Phobos Hopper .
11 Dec 2012 – Added Walking House by N55 , "TEX" the TUMBLING EXPLORER , "The Torun Robot" by Marian Jasnoch and the 1814 Walking Wheel by Lewis Gompertz .
25 Nov 2012 – Added "Octipes Vehiculum" Human Powered Walking Machine by Silas Ulbrich , Walking Pod by Scott Parenteau , 1921 Walking Vehicles (Czecho-Slovakian) , 1922 Mechanical Ox (Walking Tractor) , 1922 Walking Tractor by S. T. Corbitt and 1967 Centipede Walking Machine by Meredith Thring .
23 Nov 2012 – Added "Hombre FORCYLOR".
7 Nov 2012 – Presented lecture on W. Grey Walter's Tortoises at Monash University, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA.
30 Oct 2012 – Added Mávag-Fiat "Mocher Wagen" and "Tree Stomper" by Robert G. LeTourneau.
16 Oct 2012 – Added RIVET (Remote Inspection VEhicle Telechiric).
9 Oct 2012 – Added "Freddie Ford" Promotional Robot and "Tanbo R-1" the Robot Waiter. My 600th entry!
8 Oct 2012 – Added video clip to AMBLER , added video clip to Eric Robot , added video clip to Auger's Painting Robot , added additional clip to ODEX-1 , and added video clip to Drawing Mannequin .
14 Sept 2012 – My youngest daughter, Erica, went on a trip through Europe in Sept 2012. Whilst in Hungary, in Budapest, she got her first tatoo based on this unknown Hungarian robot. If anyone knows the robot's name or the inventor's name please let me know.
14 Sept 2012 – Added Doug Trumbull's "Pal" (a.k.a. "H.E.N.R.I. VIII") the Robot.
6 Sept 2012 – My 3rd anniversary of the cyberneticzoo.com website. I've only added 100 entries in the last 12 months, less than 1/2 of my normal output. I'm slowing down. I've had some other priorities in my life, as well as responding to lots more emails as my site gets discovered. Still more to add, though, as some categories are still not finished with the material I have.
29 Aug 2012 – Added "Joshua" the robot from the1977 movie "Demon Seed".
20 Aug 2012 – Added the Drones from "Silent Running", inc Versatran Industrial Robot .
19 Aug 2012 – Updated Ben Skora's Arok and SNEB with new pics and a video clip link.
5 Aug 2012 – Coming soon are the Drones from "Silent Running" and "Joshua" from "Demon Seed" . I wasn't going to add Movie robots to my website as these seem to be well covered by others on the web already, but there's a few favourites that I felt needed a better job done on them.
30 July 2012 – Added OctArm by Christopher Rahn et al.
29 July 2012 – Added Inflatable Walking Elephant by Otherlab , Soft Arm by Siddharth Sanan at Otherlab , Inflatable Robot Arm and Hand by Otherlab , and "Ant-Roach" also by Otherlab .
20 July 2012 – Doing a few minor updates, adding a few images to existing posts, otherwise having a bit of a rest.
22 June 2012 – Added "Kaliedophonic Dog", "Rosebud Annunciator" (1969) by Stephan von Huene , "Homo Cyberneticum" ("Cybernetic Man") series by Paul Van Hoeydonck and Cyborg by Kline and Clynes .
19 June 2012 – Added Bourdon Tube Air-powered Toys , "Soul of Bubble King" – Kenji Yanobe , Flute-Playing Automaton – Innocenzo Manzetti , Automaton Trumpet Player – Friedrich Kaufmann , Pneumatic Rubber Tube Sound Sculpture – David Jacobs and Pneumatic Drawing and Painting Machine – David Jacobs .
18 June 2012 – Added "Birds" by Chico MacMurtrie , MEART Rat Neuron Drawing Machine by SymbioticA , "The Womaniser" by Bruce Lacey , "Danger in the Everglades" (Mechanical Elephant) by Frederick Keith and "Rikky and Pete" Mechanical Horse .
28 May 2012 – Added "Shadow" Biped Walker by David Buckley , Slim Slime Snake Robot by Shigeo Hirose and Takeshi Aoki , KSI Tentacle Manipulator by Guy Immega , Inflatable Robot Arm by Yoram Koren and Inflatable Robot by Patricia Dombiak (Ben-Horin) .
26 May 2012 – I was interviewed by Reno Tibke from www.anthrobotic.com.
24 May 2012 – Busy putting an objective argument to re-instate material added to the Wiki version of the John Fare story. I failed Wiki's rules. See discussion here. I'm 'karakuri'. See my cyberneticzoo.com article here.
10 May 2012 – Added Bipedal Ornithopter by David Santos , "Mr. Peanut" the Flying Android by David Santos and Balloon-assisted Walking Robots by Simon Yates .
2 May 2012 – Added "La Casa Jonás" by José Miguel de Prada Poole , "Automat" by Mark Fisher & David Harrison , "Dynamat" by Mark Fisher & Simon Conolly and "Teacher" Inflatable Puppet from "The Wall" by Mark Fisher & Jonathan Park .
22 Apr 2012 – Added Shiro Takahashi's "Babots" Balloon Robots , Keith Clark's Pneumatic Inflatable End Effector , Jon Barron's McAndroid and Unknown Artificial Muscle Bioprosthesis.
10 Apr 2012 – Added B.F. Goodrich "Rubber Muscle" and Bridgestone "Rubbertuator" .
8 Apr 2012 – Added McKibben "Artificial Muscle" , Philco's "Lunar Worm" (Concept) , Waseda Anthropomorphic Pneumatically-activated Pedipulators , Pneumatic Mannequin Arm by Tim Jones , Robot Arm with Pneumatic Gripper by Nikolai Teleshev , Bellows Robotic Arm/Trunk by James Wilson and the ROMAC Pneumatic Actuator .
6 Apr 2012 – Added Walking Boat by Andrew Baldwin, Walking Machines and Robotic Sculptures by Andrew Baldwin , Walking Draglines and Walking Amphibious Barge.
6 Apr 2012 – A busy Good Friday, not much else happening, so time to finish some posts under draft for a while.
5 Apr 2012 – Added Plans Part 10 and 11 to Unicorn-1. Thanks to Tonino Giagnacovo.
2 Apr 2012 – Added "Boadicea" Walking Chariot by Andrew Baldwin.
2 Apr 2012 – Added "The Friendly Grey Computer, Star Gauge Model 54" by Edward Kienholz .
2 Apr 2012 – Added new page on Early Pneumatic, Fluidic and Inflatable Robots.
19 March 2012 – Removed anti-SPAM filter that was preventing comments from being accepted. Sorry to all those that who attempted to pass comments to me over the past month or so.
12 March 2012 – Added Pete Beeman's Six Legged Bicycle and Makoto Nishimura's "Gakutensoku" Pneumatic Writing Robot.
5 Mar 2012 – Added Márton Cserny's Human-Powered Walking Machine, Christiaan Zwanikken's Robo-Donkey and Carter Sharer's Mechanical Walking Machines.
22 Feb 2012 – Added Painting Machines by "Larry Flint".
17 Feb 2012 – After a long absence and procrastination, I finally finished the W Grey Walter series of articles. See 1950c – NERISSA Artificial Nerve – W. Grey Walter and W. Grey Walter's Tortoises – Self-recognition and Narcissism.
16 Feb 2012 – Lots of minor updates and additions, including external link fixes, too numerous to list separately – all takes time and distracts me from my "real" work.
30 Jan 2012 – Added video clip of SAM.
21 Jan 2012 – Updated Norbert Wiener's Cart with stills and a video link showing the cart dressed up as "Palomilla".
17 Jan 2012 – Added Other Early Science Fair Robots , ESA Lunar Rover Student concept , AMBLER and Dante/Dante II .
15 Jan 2012 – Added John Fare the Performance Artist using Robotic Props.
13 Jan 2012 – Updated Grey Walter's Tortoise Hutch with new pic supplied by Owen Holland..
7 Jan 2012 – Added Russian Swamp Walking Machines .
5 Jan 2012 – Added "Greenman" Teleoperator by Smith & Armogida , TOPS TeleOperator/telePresence System by Smith and Shimamoto , and Robotic Master-Slave Manipulator by Mark E. Rosheim .
1 Jan 2012 – Seasons greetings to you all. I've done lots of minor updates e.g. fixed typos, etc, but not listed here… but I have been busy.
27 Dec 2011 – Added Project Pigeon and Project Orcon by B.F. Skinner.
24 Dec 2011 – Added Robot Fred and James by Archigram Group.
20 Dec 2011 – Added the Natwalk 2.0 Walking Skyscraper concept.
17 Dec 2011 – Added a new Category – Man Modified – Cyborgs and related topics.
17 Dec 2011 – Added Cosmo1, Marco from Fuyo Robot Theater Expo'85, and new images to Connell's Collecting Machine.
16 Dec 2011 – Added Expo '70 Fujipan Pavillion Robots by Tezuka/Aizawa.
12 Dec 2011 – Added image of SNARC neuron.
30 Nov 2011 – Added Expo'70 Osaka Demonstration Robot by Arata Isozaki.
29 Nov 2011 – The Ladybird of Szeged is coming to Roboville – Science Museum at Science Museum, London.
Robots came from human imagination to infiltrate our culture and invade our workplaces. Where are robots in your future? Find out at Roboville, hosted at the Science Museum. It’s your unique opportunity to get up close to robots and talk to their inventors.
Roboville is part of a festival of robots taking place in the Science Museum throughout December.
The Hungarian Cultural Centre proudly welcomes the famous Ladybird of Szeged which is probably the sweetest reflex model existing. Built by Dániel Muszka with László Kalmár at Szeged University, Hungary, the Szegedi Katicabogár (Ladybird of Szeged) is a cybernetic animal. It was built to model conditioned reflexes, associating various stimuli, remembering them and forgetting them. The Ladybird has light sensors for eyes, a microphone, indicating lights, seven touch sensitive dots on its skin, capacitive memory and two electric motors. Not bad for a robot built in 1957. To find out more about this historical piece of robotics, visit Roboville and ask her inventor, Dániel Muszka.
28 Nov 2011 – Added 7ft-tall "Blue" Robot by Jiro Aizawa.
20 Nov 2011 – Added Mr. "Robot" , Mr. Saburo the Robot , Blue Stamping Robot and Unknown Robot by Jiro Aizawa.
19 Nov 2011 – Added Universal Robot No. 2 and Talking Clock Robot by Jiro Aizawa.
17 Nov 2011 – Added Mr. Kuro the Robot by Jiro Aizawa.
30 Oct 2011 – Added Mini Musician Robots and Mr. Tetsu the Green Stamping Robot by Jiro Aizawa.
26 Oct 2011 – Added Mr. Hachiro the Robot by Jiro Aizawa.
25 Oct 2011 – Added Mr. Ryo the Drawing Robot by Jiro Aizawa.
24 Oct 2011 – Added Mr. Juro the Robot by Jiro Aizawa and Mr. Atomic the Robot by Jiro Aizawa .
23 Oct 2010 – Added Mr. Shinsuk the Robot by Jiro Aizawa and Fugio the Robot by Jiro Aizawa.
19 Oct 2010 – Added Mr. Taro the Camera Robot by Jiro Aizawa.
15 Oct 2011 – Added Mr. Spark the Robot by Jiro Aizawa.
11 Oct 2011 – Added Goro the Robot by Jiro Aizawa.
10 Oct 2011 – Added Mr. Ichiro the Robot by Jiro Aizawa.
10 Oct 2011 – Added a general page on Jiro Aizawa's Robots. More pages on Aizawa's specific robots will be added shortly.
7 Oct 2011 – Updated Moonwalker with a video clip.
20 Sep 2011 – Having a little break whist working on Aizawa's robots soon to be published. In the mean time a new article arrived in the post to provide new images of Eugene Wendling's Televox.
5 Sep 2011 – added my 500^th entry, "Manny" the Robot Mannequin.
5 Sep 2011 – added Cobb's 1934 Wind-up Lower-extremity Walker and Kelley's 1917 Steam-powered "Pedomotor".
4 Sep 2011 – added Power Loader from "The Ambushers" (1967).
3 Sep 2011 – Cyberneticzoo's second anniversary today. This website was to be a 2 year project. That was my projection when I started out. It has taken its toll somewhat, with my health not being as good as it was when I started. Most nights I'm on the computer till at least midnight, often till 2am. I didn't have type-2 diabetes when I started. Lack of exercise has certainly contributed to that. I have to take Vitamin-D tablets as I don't see the sun as much as I should. I still have about 150 entries to load up. Some take considerable research time than others. I will continue to update the website, but I need to get a better balance in my life. I hope you have enjoyed my efforts to date. – Reuben Hoggett.
2 Sep 2011 – added "Dog-Mobile" Dog-controlled Walking Truck (Concept) , Robert Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" Power Suits (Fiction) , Fred Chesson's Cybernetic Dogs , Electric Bob's Big Black Ostrich , and "Road Runner" 4-Legged Scooter .
31 Aug 2011 – added Mobile Suit Gundam, Naval Anthropomorphic Teleoperator ("NAT") and "Creakyfoot" Power Suit.
29 Aug 2011 – added Grundmann & Seireg's 3-legged Walker.
24 Aug 2011 – added Self-propelled Anthropomorphic Manipulator (SAM).
16 Aug 2011 – added "Emily" the White-line Follower by Bernard Dickman, Robot Fire Cart by Meredith Thring, Free Roving Machine by M. F. Huber, and Pluto CMU Rover by Hans Moravec et al.
14 Aug 2011 – added more images and pdf's to GE's Hardiman exoskeleton.
8 Aug 2011 – added Franz Hübl's 1930 Giant Mechanical Worker, Emery Kultsar's 1964 Exoskeleton, and Constantin Lent's 1956 Powered Space Suit.
2 Aug 2011 – added JASON the mobile robot.
30 Jul 2011 – added the Unicorn-1 Robot, the Creep R/C robot, and Hexy – a light-seeking robot.
28 Jul 2011 – added Vykukal's JPL/Ames Manipulator Arm.
27 Jul 2011 – added patent info to Man-Amplifier Cornell Aeronautical – Neil Mizen.
24 Jul 2011 – added R2-D2 by John Stears.
19 Jul 2011 – added Bernard Smith's Painting Machine, A.M. Atton's "Rainbow" the Radio-Controlled Doll, "Kunibert" by L. Hilderbrand, "Dalek" Radio-Controlled Model by C. Rowland and Robot George by Dan Mathias .
18 Jul 2011 – updated Mobot II with new images and pdf, updated Garco with new image, added new and current images of Squee and "Beast"-ModII as they now exist in the Computer History Museum, added missing entry for Grey Walter and his tortoises, updated Gygan with current whereabouts and image – it is for sale! He's worthy of at least a cosmetic restoration, and may be of interest to a British or Italian Science/Technology museum. Fixed up video links for Gygan as well.
1 Jul 2011 – trying a new feature to display photos – NextGEN photo gallery. Added my friend Trefor Prest's BioMechanical Sculptures as I call them.
26 Jun 2011 – added Tom Clayton's "Robbie" the Robot, and "Herbert" the Collection Machine by Brooks, Connell, Ning.
21 Jun 2011 – added Jim Pallas' "Blue Wazoo" Cybernetic Sculpture and Ken Reinhard's "Mini-Computer" computer sculpture.
17 Jun 2011 – added Stan Ostoja-Kotkowski's Laser-Chromason Mk II.
7 Jun 2011 – Cyberneticzoo.com was spammed today in User Registrations. It is currently turned off. I ran a User Spam Remover which unfortunately removed legitimate users as well. I have not been able to restore those users at present. Sorry about that.
7 Jun 2011 – added "Fred", a Light-seeking creature.
6 Jun 2011 – added SUPERKIM Meets ET-2, the long overdue M. speculatrix & Scanning, along with a new contents page for W. Grey Walter and his Tortoises, and Lux' Electro-mechanical "protozoon".
31 May 2011 – added extra images to G.E. Walking Truck and G.E. Hardiman I .
18 May 2011 – added "HILARE" Autonomous Mobile Robot and "Tati" the Cybernetic Dog owned by Daniel Dennett .
11 May 2011 – added The 1923 Electric Dog.
3 May 2011 – added Ebenezer the Mechanical Man and HEBOT I, II & III.
23 Apr 2011 – added Baby Mechanical Elephants by Frank Stuart and Mechanical Elephants – Miscellaneous Material.
18 Apr 2011 – I've been working on updates to the Mechanical Elephant Story, as well as putting a Jiro Aizawa story together. Both are time consuming in their research. Hopefully some new material soon as there's still lots more to publish.
29 Mar 2011 – added Woolson Morse's 1891 Mechanical Elephant.
21 Mar 2011 – added Mechanical Elephants by Messmore & Damon, and "Robo" the Mechanical Elephant owned by C.C. Ezell .
15 Mar 2011 – added The Restoration of "Jumbo" the Mechanical Elephant by Larry Gavette .
14 Mar 2011 – added 1952 "Anatole" the Robot Secretary, and 1936 "Robie" the Radio-Controlled Robot.
9 Mar 2011 – added PoCo the Mechanical Elephant, and Mechanical Elephant (Modern Small Amusement Ride).
6 Mar 2011 – Walking Machine page getting too big, now set up Mechanical Elephants, Horses, and other Walking Animals.
5 Mar 2011 – added Automatic-Walking Elephant (Japanese) and The Mechanical Elephants of J.G. and George W. Shrum.
27 Feb 2011 – added "Bimbo" the Mechanical Elephant.
20 Feb 2011 – added Macades Mechanical Elephants, “Gauteng Walker” by Boris Ingram, and KYTRON by Rudolf Mittelmann.
14 Feb 2011 – largely doing minor updates and additions to the Mechanical Elephants posts over the past few weeks, but added "Bensina" the Frank Stuart Elephant in Sweden. Removed Parradine Elephant and converted it to Stuart's Sandy Bay elephant – kept link the same.
3 Feb 2011 – added Queen Mary College Mark IV Mobile Robot, Michael Folk's Inexpensive Turtle, "Tee Toddler" Light-seeking Robot, and Robot Pet by Frank DaCosta.
31 Jan 2011 – updated various Mechanical Elephant posts to create a new post on Parradine's Mechanical Elephant.
30 Jan 2011 – added Peter Steuer's Nico, St. Nikolaus and SamiKlause, "The Wonderful Electric Elephant" by Frances T. Montgomery, and "Voltaire" – William Jean Arrendorff.
28 Jan 2011 – added 7th Century Mechanical Elephant Indian Legend, Jules Verne's "The Steam House", and the Power Loader from "Aliens" the Movie.
27 Jan 2011 – added Frank Stuart's Mechanical Elephants.
26 Jan 2011 – added Mechanical Elephants by Frank Stuart in America, and 1950 Frank Stuart's "Nellie" in Australia.
25 Jan 2011 – added Peter Clare's "Snowdrop" the Mechanical Elephant, Frank Smith's Mechanical Elephant, Unknown Japanese Mechanical Elephant, Aizawa's Mechanical Elephant, and Hutton Bros. Mechanical Elephant.
23 Jan 2011 – added Frank Stuart's "Electrophant" Mechanical Elephant, and "Mechanical El" the Mechanical Elephant.
22 Jan 2011 – added steam man "Humongous" from the movie Labyrinth, and some Early "Steam Men" Illustrations.
21 Jan 2011 – added Scherman's 1982c "Steam Man".
20 Jan 2011 – added the 1959 MOBOT 1, the 1963 MOBOT, and the 1964 MOBOT Mark II.
20 Jan 2011 – whilst not strickly related to robots, I've included this article from 1885 describing iPods and eBooks!
20 Jan 2011 – added some images of Peter Steuer's Nico as he is today.
19 Jan 2011 – added "Psycho" the Whist-playing Automaton.
18 Jan 2011 – added Kempelen's "The Turk" Chess Automaton.
16 Jan 2011 – added Miscellaneous Robots for you to help me in identifying some obscure robots.
15 Jan 2011 – added 1895 Mechanical Toy Artist, Torres Quevedo Chess Playing Machines, and Maskelyne's "Zoe" Drawing Automaton.
14 Jan 2011 – added 1931 Writing Robot and 1962 Painting Machine.
10 Jan 2011 – added new page on Early Schoolboy and Science Fair robots, and moved some robots from the Humanoid Robot page. I also added Walking Robot by Reat Younger, mini Robot by Tim Grimes, and VOR, OMNIVOR, OMNIVAC 1.
9 Jan 2011 – added Remarque the Robot, Sim One, and NASA Robot Astronaut .
5 Jan 2011 – added Madam Radora, Mr. Rivets the Robot, OOM-A-GOG the Robot, Ruffnik the Robot, Jumping Ocean Liner, and Giant Walking Mechanical Man.
1 Jan 2011 – Happy New Year to all my readers out there. I've added Ray A. Willis the “Mechanical Man”, French Side-show Robot Man, Silo the Zenith Robot Man, 1953 – Westinghouse Robotian-like Costume, Gyro the Robot, and ROBART-I Sentry Robot.
31 Dec 2010 – added Robots and Pretty Girls (Part 2b-Pulp Covers), Robots and Pretty Girls (Part 3-Movies), Tin Man, Claudo the Mechanical Man, Telepathovox, Robota the Mechanical Man, Alpha the Robot, and Rupert the Mechanical Man.
29 Dec 2010 – added Robots with girls in pulp magazines part a, Soviet Circus Robot – Oleg Sokol, and ON/OFF, The Wonder Robot.
23 Dec 2010 – I've moved Pseudo Automata, Fakes, and Robot Costumes to its own page and removed it from the Humanoid Robots page.
23 Dec 2010 – I decided to do a bunch of Pseudo Automata/Robots just out of interest. King-Foo (King Fu), "Phroso the Mechanical Doll", Enigmarelle, "Zutka, the Mysterious", Fontenelle, Maurice Francill the "Radio Wizard", Radiana by Professor J. Popjie, Mr. Robot by William Hutter, Mons. de Patou the French Mechanical Mannequin, "Ross Robot Mechanical Man" – Miss Sophie Ross, and "Miss Honeywell".
22 Dec 2010 – added Arfur the Robot Dog and Robots and Pretty Girls.
17 Dec 2010 – added Tesla's Telautomaton, Fubar D. Robot, and Leonardo Torres y Quevedo's Telekine (Telekino).
14 Dec 2010 – added 2T2 Robot from Captain Cosmic, and Waldo and waldoes.
8 Dec 2010 – updated Garco with minor additions.
5 Dec 2010 – updated Tony Sale's George the Robot as he had another 15 minutes of fame due to the Wallace and Gromit Inventions series that I provided some information on.
4 Dec 2010 – added "Hockbockid" Walking Mechanical Ostrich, Russian Walking Platform Model, CRAB (Creeping Robot Activated Balloon) Model, and Chun's Martin-Marietta Mars Rover.
2 Dec 2010 – returned from a 3-week trip to Japan – will add posts as I complete them.
29 Nov 2010 – updated A Szegedi Katicabogár by Dr. Muszka Dániel with a new video link made by Mike Bohus' daughter, Vera.
10 Nov 2010 – added Johan de Boer's Computer Maze, and his Cybernetic Mouse.
5 Nov 2010 – added Thring's Walking Tractor, Hirose's KUMO-I 4-Legged Walking Machine, Hirose's PV-II 4-Legged Walking Machine, and David Buckley's "First-Step" Quadruped Walking.
1 Nov 2010 – added Harry Grant Dart's Walking Machines, Shulman's Jogging Machine, Tony Ellis' "ELF" , and Gurfinkel & Fomin's Walking Machine.
30 Oct 2010 – added François-Xavier Lalanne's R/C Tortoise, Lattimore's Walking Tractor, Human-powered Mechanical Elephant, and Ivanov's Robot Ostrich.
28 Oct 2010 – added Monestier's "Arthur" R/C Robot Dragon, and Russian Walking Machine Models.
27 Oct 2010 – added Robert Breer's Mobile Sculptures and Negroponte's SEEK.
26 Oct 2010 – added Skorzewski's Apparatus for Facilitating Walking or Running, Unknown Russian Bipedal Walking Machine, Ignatiev's Hexapod, "LIIIM" Mars Walking Device, IPM Six-Legged Walker with Laser Scanning, "NMIIIA" Hexapod Manned Rover, Efimov's 6-legged Walking Machine , and PrOP-M Mars Mini Rover.
25 Oct 2010 – added my cobbled together Early Walking Machines compilation video on Youtube.
19 Oct 2010 – added Legged Unicycle, Unknown Russian Hybrid Walking Cart, "Joggercycle" Hybrid Walking Bicycle, AT-AT from Star Wars, "ReCUS" Underwater Walking Machine, and the Iron Mule Train as revisited by Todd.
17 Oct 2010 – added "Masha" Hexapod and McGhee's OSU Hexapod.
14 Oct 2010 – added Rinehart's Walking Machine, Yagn's Walking device, and Bessonov's 6-legged walking machine.
10 Oct 2010 – added the G.E. Man-Mate Industrial Manipulator.
7 Oct 2010 – added Betelgeuse Walking Cities, Hexapod by Mocci, Petternella and Salinari, Peter Holland's TEAL walking model, and Maratori's "Golden Horse" Walking Machine.
28 Sept 2010 – added Hexapod by J.J. Kessis.
26 Sept 2010 – added "Professor Arcadius" by Durand & Decamps.
24 Sept 2010 – added Tod Loofbourrow's "Mike" / "Microtron".
13 Sep 2010 – Added Gene Oldfield's Entropy Cybernetic animal, his light-seeking Moth, Rodnee Robot, and Michael Freeman's Rudy the Robot.
11 Sep 2010 – updated Alpha with current whereabouts!
5 Sep 2010 – Added Syntelmann Teleoperated manipulator.
1 September 2010 – Cyberneticzoo.com is a year old today. Almost 300 separate Robot postings, so I'm about 1/2 way to completion.
1 Sep 2010 – Added Mark Rosheim's Man-Amplifier, Jeff Moore's Pitman exoskeleton, and Nam June Paik's Robot K-456
29 Aug 2010 – Added SABOR V by Peter Steuer & Eric Lanz and SABOR V "Orbitus".
21 Aug 2010 – Fixed email "reubenh at cyberneticzoo dot com" now works again. Gets reset during wordPress upgrades.
10 Aug 2010 – Added Huber and Steuer's SABOR V.
8 Aug 2010 – Added SABOR IV.
7 Aug 2010 – updated Nicholas Schoffer's CYSP-1 page with missing images.
6 Aug 2010 – Added SABOR II and Bogart's Mechanical Horse.
26 Jul 2010 – updated Prof Moore's Steam Man with video of Kandamu's walking model, and added Farr Goodwin as inventor for 1876 Centennial Steam Men and Mechanical Horse.
25 Jul 2010 – Added RCA "Dumbo" Moon Walker, RCA "Porky the Pig" Moon Walker, RCA "Praying Mantis" Moon Walker, RCA "Centipede" Moon Walker, Sperry Rand Moon Walker , and Sperry Rand Plodding Moon Walker.
22 Jul 2010 – Added Edgeworth's 8-Legged Walking Wooden Horse, Norris' "Iron Man" Walking Platform and W.W. Cole's Circus "Steam Man".
16 Jul 2010 – Added the1876 Philadelphia Centennial Steam Men and WJ McIntyre's Mechanical Horse "Blowtorch".
11 Jul 2010 – Added Morrison's Steam Man and updated Rowe's Steam Man page.
4 Jul 2010 – Changed Eno's Steam Man to Winans/Eno "Steam King" and added new pictures and text.
1 Jul 2010 – Added W. Farr Goodwin's Mechanical Horse (pat.).
29 June 2010 – Added a new image to Perew's walking carriage, added Edward Snell's Multi-Ped Walking Tractor, Adrian Wareham's Mechanical Animals, and French Steam Horse "Cheval Vapeur".
29 June 2010 – My blog access has been blocked where I work, and I have been researching further on all the early Steam Men, hence no updates recently.
20 June 2010 – updated Dederick's Steam Man, added more Robert the Robot photos, and further info on Hornburg's Steam Man.
19 June 2010 – added Potter's "Cart with Leggs"., "Ali the Electrical Automaton" .
14 June 2010 – added 1981 Honda Robot Rickshaw, and some more pics of Grey Walter's Tortoises, Archigram's Walking City, Thunderbird's "Sidewinder", Shiva the Mechanical Tiger, Praul's Walking Steam Tractor, Gordon's legged Steam Carriage, Brunton's Steam Carriage, Mechanical Horse – L. A. Rygg, HABOT Lunar Habitat Walker.
1 June 2010 – added C.C. Roe's Adam Ironsides, The Steam Man.
25 May 2010 – added Mr. Robotham the Great, GE Handyman.
17 May 2010 – added H.G.Wells Tripod walking machines.
16 May 2010 – added Syd Mead's Walking machine concepts, and Frank Hampson's "Phant Walking Tank".
14 May 2010 – added Robert Seymour's Locomotion: Walking by Steam.
8 May 2010 – added Battelle's Micromice maze runners and David Buckley's Quester Maze-runner.
7 May 2010 – added Thring's Mechanical Rat Maze runner, and Gizzmo Maze solver.
5 May 2010 – added Curran's Mechanical Maze solver, linked to Cautela's model with maze-solving capabilities, and added Browne's Maze solving computer.
3 May 2010 – added Bert and Ivan Sutherland's Franken maze solver, the Gavrilova Russian maze solver, Harry Rudloe's Maze solver, Eier & Zemanek Labyrinth, and the MELPAR maze.
28 Apr 2010 – added Bradner's and Deutsch's Maze-runners. Added some more pics of Wiener's Moth.
27 Apr 2010 – added Russian Cybernetic Toy dog, and Shannon's Theseus Maze Solver.
15 Apr 2010 – added Thodar and The Pud steam-powered robot.
14 Apr 2010 – added Frank & McGhee's Phony Pony.
12 Apr 2010 – added Morrison's Iron Mule Train.
11 Apr 2010 – added Hutchinson's Walking Supertank, GE Yes Man teleoperator, 1961 Space-General Moonwalker, and Tinsley's Iron Mule Train concept.
6 Apr 2010 – add Shigley's Walking Machines.
4 Apr 2010 – added Cornell Aeronautical Lab's Man Amplifier and GE's Hardiman I.
3 Apr 2010 – added Moonwalker disability chair.
3 Apr 2010 – added new page on Early Teleoperators. There are many ways to sub-categorize Teleoperators, from remote manipulators, Man-amplifiers and exoskeletons, prosthetics and orthotics, through to walking machines. These days, this overall category comes under the general heading of Haptics, The Man-amplifiers when combined with Walking machines are now commonly called Mechas (Mekas), following the naming popularised by Japanese Anime.
1 Apr 2010 – added Messmore's model of a Mechanical Horse. Added some more pics to GE Pedipulator and GE Walking Truck.
31 Mar 2010 – added Alzetta's Mechanical Horse and Ivan Sutherland's 6-legged walker. Fixed up video link on GE Pedipulator – need to register and log-in first.
30 Mar 2010 – added Thomas Ross 1933 maze, and Wallace maze.
18 Mar 2010 – added beautiful image of poster of Hornburg's Steam Man thanks to DoubleM2.
17 Mar 2010 – added Ralph Hollis' "Newt".
17 Mar 2010 – added 1970 Russian cybernetic tortoise, Russian "TAIR", Russian Cybernetic Penguin, and Russian 1988c Cybernetic dog.
17 Mar 2010 – added Maisie, Vintage, and Electromechanical Servant.
15 Mar 2010 – added video clip to Daniel Muszka's Szeged Katica.
11 Mar 2010 – added Klatu.
10 Mar 2010 – added ODEX-I with and OSU ASV.
9 Mar 2010 – added some more Russian robots – Vanya/GPTU, REM, Baby Robot, Conductor Robot, MARSIK, BWKA(Beech), and Orion.
6 Mar 2010 – added most of the early Russian robots – B2M, RUM, TUM, Sepulka, TUP, Bip-Bipon John, ARS, Volzhanin, Sibiryak, Neptune & Electron, Alpha-BC, RZR, Expo-70 robot.
21 Feb 2010 – added Arthur the Robot, and AROK.
20 Feb 2010 – added Commander Robot and Percy the Robot.
16 Feb 2010 – added Tinker, Unknown Hungarian robot, Bruce Lacey's Electric Actors, and an unknown Chinese Robot, as well as GE Pedipulator and a Russian cybernetic dog.
10 Feb 2010 – added Bruce Lacey's ROSA BOSOM robot, and Claus Scholz' MM7 (aka MM47).
9 Feb 2010 – added Robert the Robot by Bernard Smith from Australia in 1950's.
7 Feb 2010 – added Tony Sale's George the Robot, and updated Schöffer's CYSP-1 with an additional video clip.
5 Feb 2010 – added 3 more fictional walking machine articles, the compressed-air horse, Lathrop & Edison's Walking machine, and Pete's Steam Man.
4 Feb 2010 – added more thumbnails to Walking Machines page and added CAPTCHA plug-in to reduce the increasing amount of SPAM I'm getting in comments. Sorry for the inconvenience.
3 Feb 2010 – added Tortilla.
31 Jan 2010 – added elektor's Beetle and Moth, and Heiserman's Buster.
30 Jan 2010 – added GE walking truck complete with video clip.
29 Jan 2010 – added Romoletto, Mekko and Cosmos.
26 Jan 2010 – experimented with WordPress language settings. Russian Cyrallic may now display. Let me know if something has broken.
26 Jan 2010 – added Gygan, Robetron, and Mr. Robotham.
26 Jan 2010 – added Electric Dog addendum and Fictional Steam Men.
20 Jan 2010 – added Mr Magnetron, Magnamo, and Gismo the Peaceful.
18 Jan 2010 – Gave Maze Solvers their own page, and separated Mobile robots from Cybernetic machines and Humanoid Robots pages.
18 Jan 2010 – added Moravec's Robug, Xee, CYCLOPS, MERV, and BERT.
14 Jan 2010 – added Vernol's Walking Vehicle, Doyle's Horse, Nolan's Horse [removed as unsuitable-Ed.], Davis' Toy Horse, Horace the Robot, and Anatole the Robot.
10 Jan 2010 – added Seymour Papert's Logo Turtle here.
10 Jan 2010 – added Russian items inc unknown tortoise, cybernetic explorer, Cybernetic bee, cybernetic dog cable follower, and a cybernetic tortoise.
8 Jan 2010 – added Astor and EMMA.
6 Jan 2010 – added Delsemme tortue, Plexi-ball, and Bruce Lacey's MATE.
5 Jan 2010 – added Omega, Bielowski, Adroit, and Shakey.
5 Jan 2010 – added Cautela and Mikaelian Cybernetic Machine here.
3 Jan 2010 – added STeLLA, Icarus, and Hinz und Kunz.
31 Dec 2009 – added GARCO here.
31 Dec 2009 – added Joe Dynamo, Unknown French robot, and Roberto.
31 Dec 2009 – added Colman Doll, Walking tractor, Bryan walking car, and the wheel-less truck.
31 Dec 2009 – added Tolman's Sowbug here.
27 Dec 2009 – added APL-JHU Mod II pre-sonar here and sonar-vision version here.
25 Dec 2009 – added Stanford Cart here.
22 Dec 2009 – added Alex Andrew's Trolley here.
22 Dec 2009 – added James the intelligent robot, Sparko, Unknown 1939, Superman Dennis, Clarence, Robin, Big Looie
21 Dec 2009 – added Russian "Big Cyber Tortoise" here.
21 Dec 2009 – added JHU-APL Ferdinand ModI automaton here.
20 Dec 2009 – added MIT unknown robot here.
17 Dec 2009 – updated Angyan's Machina Reproducatrix with diagram here.
17 Dec 2009 – added Kretz / Angyan / Zemanek Machina Combinatrix here.
16 Dec 2009 – added Claude A. Shannon's 1951 Maze-solver here.
13 Dec 2009 – updated Barbarossa page to mention incorrect connection to Turkish 1889 Alamet automaton .
13 Dec 2009 – added Elektro here.
11 Dec 2009 – added further images of Rastus here.
7 Dec 2009 – added Harland's Cybernetic Turtle here.
5 Dec 2009 – added Budapest Robot here; Negro Mech Man here; Antrophor here; Egbert here; Willie here; 1913 French Automaton here.
4 Dec 2009 – added Mr. X here.
1 Dec 2009 – added Azor and Super Azor cybernetic dog here.
1 Dec 2009 – added Mac the Robot here.
1 Dec 2009 – removed Early Robot Enabling Technologies from Robot Time-line and gave it its own page here.
30 Nov 2009 – added Willie Vocalite here, Fortune Teller robot here, and Mr. Ohm Kilowatt here.
28 Nov 2009 – Added Alpha a.k.a Roboter , Mary Ann here.
24 Nov 2009 – Added Sparky the Robot Pup here.
24 Nov 2009 – Added Bruinsma's Cyber the Dog here.
23 Nov 2009 – Added Vasilyev and Petrovsky "Beta" here.
23 Nov 2009 – Added Daniel Muszka Szegedi Katicabogar here.
22 Nov 2009 – Added Mr Radio Robot 1931 here, and Yasutaro Mitsui robot here.
20 Nov 2009 – Added Sam Barton Bicycle Mechanical Horse here due to popular demand.
17 Nov 2009 – Added Minsky's SNARC maze solver here.
17 Nov 2009 – Added J.J. Coupling's Thinking Machine – Maze Solver here.
14 Nov 2009 – Added Bechtolsheim walking car here, Madamoiselle Claire here, Mann Walking Manikin here, and Bingham's Walker placemarker here.
13 Nov 2009 – Added Ian P. Howard's Maze Solver here.
12 Nov 2009 – Added Rastus and Willie Jr. here.
11 Nov 2009 – Added Katrina Van Televox here, Wendling's Televox here, Sheet Metal Man here, Dr Motor here, Telelux here, Wensley's Televox here, and Rupert I & II here.
7 Sep 2009 – Start of this blog. This is the beginning of a series of posts on the history of cybernetic animals, early robots, steam men, and other walking machines covering the late 19th century and the 20th century. My initial focus will be my recent work on W. Grey Walter and his tortoises, with starters to the other categories to whet your appetites on things to come.
For those of you who can't wait, my good friend David Buckley has a wonderful site on the history of robots ( ) and some of my earlier work has been published by David. I should add here that I recently travelled to the UK ( June, 2009) and met up with David, and together we spent the next 3 weeks travelling the UK and Europe to visit archives, museums, robot artists, computer and cybernetic pioneers. The results of that trip will appear over time in this blog.