Tag: 1955

(above) Robert the Robot  is the first robot built by Kirt Golden in 1954. Interesting robot built by Kirt Golden, age 16 at the time (1955). Limited budget led him to realize that one dextrous arm is sufficient to perform most tasks. For a small robot, it had sufficient weight and power to push a …

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Snail Robot by Versal Cross  High-School Robots Learn the “Three Rs” By Jim Collison – Popular Mechanics  July 1955 There is also a little robot. Versal Cross, 17, the senior student who built it calls it a Doodlebug or Snail. The Snail follows a beam of light and, having lost it, searches until it finds …

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