a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
Mechanical «person», on behalf of TUP, was created not by scientists and engineers: it was designed and built the students from the eight – Rural schools Bvlamutovki Xmelnitskoy area. (Please forward a better translation if you have one)
Sepulka ( Сепулька ) is a Visitor guide robot at the Russian Polymus Museum and is still in active service. Sepulka model
Illustration above showing a depiction of "ЧТС" shaking hands with "ТУМ". Вадим Викторович Мацкевич – Vadim Viktorovich Matskevich built quite a few robots in his lifetime. For further infomation on Matskevich, see here.
Above pic shows the name "ЧТС" (HTC) . Otherwise it is the same robot as those below. The cover of one of Matskevich's books on robots. The construction of this robot is detailed in the above pamphlet. The folded broadsheet is not reproduced here. The illustration on the pamphlet is of another Matskevich robot. Вадим …
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ROM (or V2M) as it appeared in the 1937 Paris Exhibition. Possibly the first Russian Humanoid Robot ever built. [Note: I haven't quite worked out the Russian <-> English translation of this Robots names as yet.] Retired Lieutenant Colonel Vadim Viktorovich Matskevich turned 82 years old [in 2002] . As well as writing many children's books on …
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