a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
Robots created by artists and / or used in art.
Height : 1m (3.2 ft) Electric motor operated Radio remote controlled Sound produced by tape recorder Unique piece Private collection Radio-controlled gilt (gold leaf gilding) resin whisky table with agate tray. Arthur comes and welcomes visitors carrying tumblers and a whisky decanter in its tray while moving its neck, mouth, wings, and claws and making …
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"Seek", 1970 by Nicholas Negroponte with the Architecture Machine Group , M.I.T. Originally shown at the "Software" exhibition, curated by Jack Burnham for the Jewish Museum in New York 1970. This piece consisted of a Plexiglass encased, computer-controlled environment full of small blocks and inhabited by gerbils, who continuously changed the position of the blocks. Following instructions …
zig – 1965 – styrofoam, motors. Above: Float. 1967. Osaka-1, Expo '70 Robert Breer Born in Detroit, 1926. 1949, after graduation from Stanford University (where he won the annual printing award), moved to Paris. Exhibited in group shows there at the Denise René Gallery from 1950 to 1955, and in 1955 participated …
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Title: Robot K-456 Creators: Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe. Japan, 1964. (Construction started in 1963 with Nam Jun and his brother and was completed in 1964 with the aid of Abe helping with the electronics). Description: Originally intended to be a 30-channel radio-controlled robot,  but ended up as a 20-channel radio-controlled anthropomorphic robot. In anthropomorphic terms, the robot started …
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See video clip showing both of the "Electric Actors" in motion, amongst other assemblages. SPARE PART ART Your browser does not support iframes. "Electric Man Mark I" as he was in June 2009 when I visited Bruce along with David Buckley who joined me on my 'old robot' pilgrimage. The units on the left are …