a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
Robot Pouring Liquid From Flask Elbow Bender. Showing off its light touch, new mobot Mark II prepares to pour liquid chemical from one flask to another under command of operator Stan Pearlman at control console. The new remote controlled mobile robot built by Hughes Aircraft company has inflated pads on Hands for delicates jobs, ten …
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Engineer Lester. H. Waechter stands next to a Mobot, a type of robot manufactured by the Hughes Aircraft Company for use in areas too hazardous for humans to work in. Fullerton, California. Remotely Controlled MOBOT* (Mobile Robot) system manufactured by Hughes Aircraft Company, Fullerton, Calif., for the Atomic Energy Division of the Phillips Petroleum Company, …
MOBOT Mark I (ReMOte roBOT) – Remote Mobile Handler – 1959. MOBOT DISPLAYS ITS ARM – press release 9 Sep 1959 Robert W. Henderson, lft, vice presedent of Sandia Corp., and Dr. Allen E. Puckett of Hughes Aircraft, look over the arms of Mobot Mark I which was unveiled here today. It was developed at Hughes …
"Psycho" at the Museum of Science, London. (Image source: Mechanical Toys – Charles Bartholomew) My intent in putting up this entry is to draw attention on the aspect of remote control by which the slave component is anthropomorphic. This fits in with the early history of teleoperators and manipulators. All other aspects of "Psycho" are well …
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John Gaughan's version of "The Turk" Like my post on Maskelyne's "Psycho" and "Zoe" automatons, the interest here is its place in history in terms of remote master-slave manipulators, and I shall confine myself to just that. There is significant other matter on "The Turk" published elsewhere already. Well established as a fake contrivance [pseudo automaton, faux (false) automaton], …
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