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Updates

18 June 2013 – Updated Hombre FORCYLOR and "Freddie Ford" Promotional Robot with a new image. Updated the Soviet 1960's robots ТУМ (TUM) , Сепулька (Sepulka) the Guide Robot , ARS (АРС) Robot and the Neptune (Нептун), Electron (электрон) 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 [Катыс] . 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.
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 .
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.
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.
6 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.
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).
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, 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.

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