a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
1931: "Bugs the Mechanical Man" by Bobby Lambert, Charlotte, N.C. USA. 1948: 1949: Elmer the robot, Colorado. Jimmie the Demonstration Robot responds to single words via the telephone. 1950: 1951: 1952: 1953: 1954: 1955: "Reject the Robot" by Tommy Firestine. USA. 1956: "Herbert Watt" the robot. 1957: "Nemo the Magnificant" Robot by Johnny Ventura. USA …
John Fare Since the late 60's I have browsed all types of magazines for articles on electronic art, kinetic art, and robots. When I first came upon the John Fare article, I tucked it away, taking it at face value, for a future use. Given the rise of the internet, it appears that the "John Fare" story has re-surfaced …
Read More “1964 – Performance Artist using Robotic Props – John Fare (Canadian)”
Russian Walking Machines from Dept. of Theoretical Mechanics. All source material from here. Now tens of scientific groups in the world are developing this problem. Walking machines can be divided into two parts: dynamical stability (with a few legs) and statical stability (multilegged) machines. The letter can be divided into vehicles of profile practicability and …
Read More “1995 – Swamp Walking Machines – Dept. of Theoretical Mechanics (Russian)”
Patent number: 5845540 Filing date: Sep 25, 1997 Issue date: Dec 8, 1998 See full patent here. Patent Abstract: A pair of connected joints is provided in a master-slave robotic system each operated by a plurality of force-imparting means. Such force imparting means for the second joint supported on a member controlled by the first …
Read More “1997 – Robotic Master-Slave Manipulator – Mark E. Rosheim (American)”
TeleOperator/telePresence System / Concept Verification Model (CVM) The TeleOperator/telePresence System/Concept Verification Model (TOPS/CVM)[34], was developed as the successor to the 'Greenman'. The TOPS/CVM consisted of a 3-DOF (degrees-of-freedom) head, a 3-DOF torso and a dexterous, force-reflective 9- DOF hand coupled to a force-reflective 7-DOF arm. Fig. 1 TOPS from Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San …
Read More “1991 – TOPS TeleOperator/telePresence System – Smith and Shimamoto (American)”