a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
THE TELEKINE (or Telekino in Spanish) Torres Quevedo started to develop the idea of a remote control around 1901 or 1902, as a way of testing his airships without risking human lives. He was the first person to lay down the modern remote control operation principles, which he expressed in a prototype that he patented …
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Tesla – The Electric Mind 2-2 Model Model Patent number: 613809 (see full patent here) Filing date: Jul 1, 1898 Issue date: Nov 1898 In September 1898, Tesla demonstrates his radio-controlled torpedo boat at Madison Square Garden in Ney York City. (Popular Science July 1956). From Miessner's book "On the Early History of Radio Guidance", published in …
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Selective Timeline 1942 Robert Heinlein – Waldo 1943 – Deaton Puppet Animating Harness Patent 1948 GE Master-Slave Manipulator – John Payne 1948 Ray Goertz Master-Slave Manipulator 1953 Harvey Chapman – Garco 1954 Ray Goertz Electric Servo-Manipulator 1956 GE Yes Man – Exoskeleton Manipulator 1963 Science & Mechanics – "Waldo" as master-slave manipulators 1963 Rogers et …
The entry is significant in that it highlights the technologies of the time that enabled most of the early electric animals, mechanical men then later the robots to be operated remotely by sound, light, or radio waves. This technology and underlying principles influenced these machines for at least 50 years. The technology is studied in detail …