This page contains a timeline showing Early Pneumatic, Fluidic and Inflatable Robots.
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Pneumatic Robots
1875- “Psycho” Card Playing Automaton
 1928 – “Gakutensoku” by Makoto Nishimura
 Early Pneumatic Actuator Patents
1959-61 Concept O-16 Gas-actuated Parallelogram Grappler
 1966 – Philco “Lunar Worm” Concept
 1967 – B.F. Goodrich “Rubber Muscle
1968 – Polish Artificial Muscle Bioprosthesis
 1969-71 - Waseda Pneumatic Walking robots
 1973 – Japanese “Babot” – Shiro Takahashi
1976 – Pneumatic Exoskeleton Prosthesis – Pierre Rabischong
 1978 – Clark – Balloon End-effector
 1979 – The “Simrit Finger” bending actuator
 1979 – Jim Whiting – Pneumatic android
 1980 – CRAB Walking Beam Model – Peter Holland
 1981 – Tim Jones – Mannequin arm
 1984 – Prof. James Wilson - Elephant trunk
 1984-5 – McAndroid with Firestone Air Springs – Jon Barron et al
 1988 – “Shadow” Bipedal Walker - David Buckley
 1989 – Paynter – Arthrobots
 1990 – Yoram Koren – Inflatable Robot Arm
 1994 – Patricia Ben-Horin - Inflatable Robot  
 1995 – KSI Tentacle Manipulator - Immega and Antonelli
 1996 – Autopod Hybrid Walker
 1999 - Festo “Fluidic Muscle”
 1999 – Slim Slime Robot - Shigeo Hirose & Takeshi Aoki
 2005 – OmniTread Snakebot OM-8
 2010 – Otherlab - Siddharth Sanan
 2011 – Otherlab – Walking Elephant
 2011 - Otherlab – Inflatable Robot Arm and Hand 
 2011 – Otherlab – “Ant-Roach”
 2011 – Soft-robot Harvard -new
 2012 – Fraunhofer researchers – Bellows Spider RobotPneumatic Dynamic Structures
 1968 – Movil – La casa Jonás - Jose Miguel de Prada Poole
 1969 – “Automat” – Mark Fisher & David Harrison
 1971 - “Dynamat”  – Mark Fisher & Simon Conolly
 2000 – Festo “Airtecture”
 2005 – Kas Oosterhuis “MuscleBody”
 2006 - Chico MacMurtrie / Amorphic Robot Works - variousInflatable Personal Robots & ToysÂ
 Bourdon Tube Toys
 
 Remote-controlled Toys
 2011 – Remote-controlled Flying Fish.Inflatable Art Machines
 1966 - “The Womaniser” by Bruce Lacey 
 1967 – David Jacobs – Pneumatic Rubber Sound Sculpture
 1967 – Stephan von Huene – “Kaliedophonic Dog”, “Rosebud Annunciator” (1969) 1979 – Jim Whiting – Pneumatic Android Sculptures
 Jim Whiting – Pneumatic Grasshopper
 1980-1 – Mark Fisher – Teacher – “The Wall”
 1990 – David Santos - Bipedal Ornithopter Blimp
 1999 – David Santos - “Mr. Peanut” the Flying Android
 2001 – Tim Hawkinson – “Ãœberorgen”
 2001-6 -  Theo Jansen – “Vaporum” Pneumatic Strandbeest
 2001-4 - MEART Rat Neuron Drawing Machine by SymbioticA
 2003 - Stelarc – Muscle Machine
 2006 - “Birds” by Chico MacMurtrie / Amorphic Robot Works