a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
Humaniform automatons, mechanical men, robots covering late 19th century and the 20th century
Sweaty Manny by Arthur Fisher Popular Science – Sep 1988 Manny. One of the most complex and sophisticated computer-controlled movable robots ever designed, as seen in the photos above, is being built at Battelle's Pacific Northwest Laboratories in Richland, Wash. "Manny," for robotic mannequin, is so humanlike that it even sweats. "In its final form," says …
Built in 1985 Robot George, it's 25 years old Dan Mathias first big robot and 40 inches tall, and weights 110 lbs, has one Pentium III – 600 MHz Lap-Top, with 128 meg ram and 20 Gig ide hard drive, sound blaster voice input, voice syntheses and image processing and control with Linux software that …
An early, if not the first plans for a radio-controlled model of a Dalek by C. Rowlands as published in Radio Control models and Electronics Jan 1966 (really for Chrismas, Dec 1965). see pdf here
Built by L. Hilderbrand, a German Radio-control enthusiast. Published in Radio Control Models & Electronics, May 1965. See pdf
See pdf here VIDEO CLIP You will need to register (free) and login to http://www.movietone.com/ , then search for the following: Film Title: A LIVIN' DOLL Card Title: THE LIVIN DOLL Location: London, England Date: 25/07/1960 Length: 51 secs Story Number: 80678 Description: This is "Rainbow", the radio-controlled doll, seen here beside the basement …
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