Inventor Shunichi Mizuno, now president of Cybot Corporation in Japan, at work on his robot. Image source: Robots, machines in man's image, Isaac Asimov, Karen A. Frenkel – 1985. Photo by Mark Wexler. Caption: Instead of diamonds, up to 20,000 electronic components are this girl's best friends. Low-[pressure] pneumatic valves controlled by a microcomputer give …
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Telepathic Robot – The Scientific Miracle photographed by Humphrey Spender – September 1937. The Scientific Miracle Robot Copyright Bolton Council Image ref. 1993.83.24.35 Print ref. 1993.2.135 Description: The Mass Observers recorded overheard conversations about how this miraculous talking robot worked, and whether it was all a scam. Source: here. Worktowners at Blackpool: Mass-Observation and …
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Two girls inspecting the robot today. c1935. Mr. ENRICO GARCIA showing the "works" of the new ROBOT, which answers questions without codes. A ROBOT WITH BRAINS OF ITS OWN. 14 Years to perfect new invention. The "mental telepathy" ROBOT, on which Mr. ENRICO GARCIA has spent pounds700 and 14 years untiring effort to perfect, was …
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1962 – Szegedi Robot Man [reproduction] by Dr. Muszka Dániel. Fotó: Bodajki Ákos Article source: here. (Google translation from Hungarian.) Human-sized robot arrived at the Paks Nuclear Energy Museum. The heroic age of cybernetics – or life was the latest piece of the temporary exhibition called PC before the tin man in Szeged at which …
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1973 – "Robbie" the Pulpit Robot by the Rev. Ron Mackenzie ROBOT IN THE PULPIT Sunday school with a difference: Helping the Reverend Ron Mackenzie is Robbie, the robot he designed and built himself 8 years ago. Robbie was built to help attract children to church and he has proved to be an enormous success. …
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