a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
CYB Head and Arm – 1969 Plexiglass, aluminium, and wires. cybernetic man — birth of a new type of man, adapted to new duties and interplanetary missions. we known already at this moment that it will be soon possible to adapt man to new environments by adding or replacing parts of his body with cybernetic …
Read More “1968-9 – “Homo Cyberneticum” (“Cybernetic Man”) series – Paul Van Hoeydonck (Belgian)”
Interview with John Gaughan who restored "Tap Dancer". AN INTERVIEW WITH STEPHAN VON HUENE ON HIS AUDIO-KINETIC SCULPTURES Dorothy Newmark* * Computer artist living at 820 Hermosa Drive, N.E., Albuquerque, N.M. 87110, U.S.A. (Received 22 November 1969.) Interviewer's note—Stephan Von Huene was born in Los Angeles, California in September 1932 and is currently residing …
Read More “1967 – “Kaliedophonic Dog”, “Rosebud Annunciator” (1969) – Stephan von Huene (American)”
Source: Mark Fisher: staged architecture by Eric Holding – 2000 Inflatables and Structures Fisher had seen his first anthropomorphic inflatable Mother of the Arts in 1966. It was an inflatable woman designed by fellow Architectural Association students for the annual Lord Mayor's procession. It was based on Jean Tinguely's She, a long, hollow reclining woman …
Read More “1968-9 – “Automat” – Mark Fisher & David Harrison (British)”
Mr. Taro the Camera Robot by Jiro Aizawa. Built in 1969 for Expo'70 held in Osaka. He was located in the Fujipan Pavillion, in partnership with another robot. The above image was from a more recent exhibition catalogue held in Japan, 2010, and shows a more modern digital camera. The Nixie tubes around his waist are no …
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SAM, a mobile manipulator, mimics the movements of an operator stationed at a far-distant control center. The Self-propelled Anthropomorphic Manipulator (SAM) that wears NASA logos was developed under Edwin Johnsen's direction in 1969 by the now defunct Space Nuclear Propulsion division of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Johnsen is credited with introducing the popular term …
Read More “1969 – Self-propelled Anthropomorphic Manipulator (SAM) – Edwin Johnsen (American)”