1938 – Robot – Charles Lawson (British)

Charles Lawson lighting a cigarette for his robot. Other than the above images, all that's reported for this robot is that is talks and smokes.  The photo above shows a seat with a lightning-bolt motif on it. The seat suggests robot could arise and sit again.  Robot''s right arm moves to show a stop signal to …

1939 – Superman Dennis the Robot – Charles Lawson (British)

Charles Lawson with his 2nd robot. Robot invented by Charles Lawson, a radio engineer  of Kettering, England. Little is known of this Robot. Earliest known date of 1939 is from the above Popular Science advert on Webster's Dictionary. 7ft. tall, its claimed that this robot can control traffic, sing, light and smoke a cigarette and sit or …