a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
Michael Freeman's first robot was RUDY, a robot he designed and entered into the Westinghouse Science Fair in 1960, aged 13 where he won first place!. Rudy was a mechanical robot that could walk around by using a tether and wheels, and could remember where it went so that later on, it could re-trace its steps. …
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Syntelmann II – Electric Tele-manipulator with 9 degrees of freedom per arm, position- and force-controlled sensors for forces, sounds, temperatures (in front), operator with exo-skeleton transducer system, force feedback system, and stereo image transmission system (in the back). The “Syntelmann” was developed by Kleinwaechter in Freiburg, Germany, parallel to the development of the Stanford Arm …
Title: Robot K-456 Creators: Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe. Japan, 1964. (Construction started in 1963 with Nam Jun and his brother and was completed in 1964 with the aid of Abe helping with the electronics). Description: Originally intended to be a 30-channel radio-controlled robot,  but ended up as a 20-channel radio-controlled anthropomorphic robot. In anthropomorphic terms, the robot started …
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Pitman Designed as an "enhanced special forces capability for low intensity conflicts and counterterrorists". It was conceived at Los Alamos National Laboratory by Jeff Moore of Advanced Weapons Technology Group. The operator is housed in a 500 Lbs fiberglass, polymer/ceramic composite armor called Body Armor, Powered (BAP). Pitman is capable of carrying 300 Lbs of …
The Man-Amplifier The figure above shows a model of the Man-Amplifier proposed by Ross-Hime Designs. It has twenty-six degrees-of-freedom, excluding the hands. A 500 Lbs load capacity is engineered. The modular building block approach applied to the arm and leg actuators simplifies maintenance and reduces parts inventory. Singularity free, pitch-yaw type joints are utilized in …