1937 – The Robot Gargantua – “Bill” Griffith P. Taylor – (Australian/Canadian)

The Robot Garguantua. gar·gan·tu·a -n. A person of great size or stature and of voracious physical or intellectual appetites. [After the giant hero of Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais.] Like most, including myself, the true significance is lost in the title ("An Automatic Block-Setting Crane") and opening description of the original article published globally in …

1957 – Remote-Controlled Painting Machine – Akira Kanayama (Japanese)

Akira Kanayama’s painting machine from 1957 was a four-wheeled device that Kanayama could remote-control to create paintings approximately 180 by 280 cm. The canvas lay on the floor and the machine dripped and poured paint on the picture pane. The painting machine is an early example of the machine/robot in the role of artist. Kanayama’s …

1971 – “COSME” – Le Chevalier de L’Espace – Jeanne Renucci-Convers (French)

Cosme, le chevalier de lumière… est le dernier né et le géant des automates.            Nous voilà bien loin des premières poupées articulées. Cosme n'est pas seulement colossal (5 m. de haut, 1.350 kg), il a de l'ambition et veut synthétiser en lui l'humanité présente et future dans le contexte technique qui est le nôtre.                                            Animé …

1929 – “M. M.” the Mechanische Mensch (Mechanical Man) – P. Geerlviet Jr. (Dutch)

Source: Panorama, 17 September 1929 DE OPENING VAN DE 4e INTERNATIONALE RADIO-TENTOONSTELLING TE AMSTERDAM vond Dinsdag j.l. plaats. De heer P. Geervliet exposeert er zijn mechanischen mensch, die op alle vragen antwoord geeft. THE OPENING OF THE 4th INTERNATIONAL RADIO EXHIBITION AMSTERDAM found Tuesday jl place. Mr P. Geervliet exhibits there are mechanischen man, who answers …

1933 – Cocktail Robot – (American)

13 Nov 1933, New York, New York, USA — The law says "there ain't goin' to be no bar maids" the ubiquitous feminine cocktail shaker persists in appearing on the scene and here, essaying the role, is Miss Ruth Young, where she is demonstrating a helpful device for the cocktail lover and dispenser, the robot …