a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
MASCOT – (MAnipulatore Servo COntrollato Transistorizzato) ELECTRONIC EXHIBITION IN ROME – 1962 See MASCOT 0:59 secs into above clip at the Palace of Congresses in Rome for the IX Congress of Electronics Exhibition. Later models of MASCOT were made by Elsag Bailey in the early 1990's. The Mascot first produced by the firm SELENIA in …
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In 1958, the American Machine and Foundry (AMF) Thermatool Corporation (later known as AMF Corporation, later acquired by Prab Company of Michigan) initiated an R&D project for a Versatile Transfer Machine, or VERSATRAN, a programmable cylindrical coordinate frame robotic arm designed by Harry Johnson and Veljko Milenkovic. AMF introduced Model 102, a continuous-path transfer device, and Model …
Read More “1958-62 – “VERSATRAN” Industrial Robot – Harry Johnson & Veljko Milenkovic”
Caption: 森永製è“ã®ãƒãƒœãƒƒãƒˆè±¡ã€è¡—ã‚’è¡Œãï¼ç†Šæœ¬å¸‚内 (English translation: Morinaga robot elephant goes to the town–city Kumamoto) Other than the image, I have little other information about this mechanical elephant. Image was taken in 1958 in Japan, I believe. RH update Feb 2011 – Thanks to Hisashi Moriyama from Japan I now have the following information. Robot Elephant was made …
Read More “1957-8 – “Toffee-kun” the Robot Elephant – “Kowa Display Company” (Japanese)”
At the debut press conference, Handyman twirled a hoola hoop and wielded a hammer. Handyman slave station being held up by a G.E. "O" Man. Handyman was built between 1958-59 at Schnetectady, New York for the joint AEC-USAF Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program by Ralph Mosher. The idea of CAMs originated nine years ago when the …
"MM7" on the left, Claus Scholz in the middle and "MM8" on the right. Scholz made MM7 between 1957-8 and finished with MM9 in 1973, so I believe. The MM7 Selektor human machine is the development for which the international scientist Scholz-Nauendorff, nicknamed the "Viennese father of robots", is best known. Designed as a means of …
Read More “1957-73 – “MM6″,”MM7 Selektor” & “MM8 Contina” Selektor – Claus Scholz (Austrian)”