a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
Maisie the Robot (c1977) with David Strange. From a comment below, David Strange informs me that the robot he called Maizie was a maze solving robot whilst he was working for the BBC Open University. It was used in several programmes on cognitive psychology. Thanks David. From further correspondence with David (Dec 2015): The whole of …
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A prop for a Tomorrow's World segment in 1966 showing what Robots would be like in 1976. Although some parts appear to be electrically controlled (e.g. the popping eyes which are connected to the antenna 'ears'). the black slot is probably for the hidden operator to see what they are doing. The arms …
The poor image quality of the article prevents me from performing OCR and translation.
The “Bible” of the Biocybernetics Department dnipt.irtc.org.ua/history.html In 1964 Nikolai Mikhailovitch Amosov formulated a hypothesis on the information processing mechanisms of the human brain. Within this hypothesis he expressed his system-level observations on the brain’s structure and the mechanisms that are made operational by a human’s mental functions. Of principal importance was the …
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See full pdf article from the Russian magazine Radio September 1970 here.