a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
ODEX I is a tele-operated walking machine. Initially developed by Steve Bartholet. Pic shows wooden mock-up. (pic from SERVO June 2004 article here.) see Popular Science Sep 1984 pdf here. see Robotics Age Sep-Oct 1983 pdf here. See ODEX-1 patents here: There was an ODEX II and and ODEX III. ODEX I is now in …
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Concepts done 1962, test Pedipulator demonstrated in 1964. It was never completed as a poposal for a more useful quadruped was put forward and accepted (see here ). See Popular Mechanics Oct 1965 article here (pdf). See video clip of Pedipulator here. The Gaumont video site is a pain to use. One must be registered (free). There is an …
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A Penny Popular item from 1916 , this fictional story about the adventures of tthree comrades Jack, Sam, and Pete. Pete has a Steam Man. He appears with his own axe in both cover illustrations. Maybe he chops his own firewood?
Galveston Daily News 13 Dec 1896 (pdf here) In the Deep of Time by George Parsons Lathrop in collaboration with Thomas A. Edison For The News-Copyrighted. This story is the result of conversations with Thomas A. Edison. the substance of which he afterwards put into the form of notes written for my use. His suggestions …
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La Porte City Review 16 Nov 1882 p2 (see pdf here) Fiction originally from Harper's Magazine How Aluminium Won The Grand Prix by William B. Greene "'This is my creation," continued Joe, stroking the animal's mane. "It is I who have breathed life into his nostrils." "Is he mad?" I thought to myself. "What!" I …
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