This page contains a timeline showing significant Cybernetic animals and events, the dates being the creation or announcement of the cybernetic models. If IMAGE IS CLICKABLE, then a post exists for it. Check out the updates page for recent posts.
PRE-CYBERNETIC ERA
1911- Toy Beetle
1912- Miessner / Hammond – Electric Dog "Seleno" + Addendum
1916- Steinbrook – Wireless Dog
1923 – The Electric Dog – Hugo Gernsback
1928- Henri Piraux – "Philidog"
1934- Dussaud – Endomechanics
1939- Tolman – Sowbug Schematic
CYBERNETIC ERA
1948-49 Grey Walter – "ELMER" & "ELSIE"
1949- Wiener Wiesner Singleton – "Palomilla" Moth
1950- Grey Walter – "CORA"
1951 – TOAD Artificial Nuron Line Follower – Householder
1952-54 Albert Ducrocq – Miso, Job, Cesare, Barbara, Renard-et-al
1956 – Bert and Ivan Sutherland – "Beast"
1957- Ivan Sutherland – "Machina Versatilis"
1958- Angyan – "Machina Reproducatrix"
1958- A.H. Bruinsma – "Cyber the Dog"
1958- Welker – "Sparky"
1958- Uttley / Andrew Conditional Probability Computer with trolley
1958- Electrotechnical Institute in Kiev – "Tortilla"
1958-60-62 Wojciechowski – "Azor" and "Super Azor" Dog
1960- Stanford Cart
1961 – APL-JHU "Ferdinand" Mod I
1962-3- APL-JHU Hopkins "Beast" Mod II pre-vision
1962?- "Tortilla-2" Ukrainian
1962- "Icarus" – Orr
1962- Otto Walter Haseloff – "Hinz & Kunz"
1963- Cautela & Mikaelian – Conditioned Cybernetic Machine
1975-99 – KYTRON by Rudolf Mittelmann
1975- Moth Model
1976- Heiserman – "Buster"
1976 – Tod Loofbourrow "Mike" / "Microtron"
1978- Mark-IV QMC
1978- Peter Folk 's Inexpensive Turtle
1978- "Tee Toddler" Light-seeking Robot
1979- Frank DaCosta – Robot Pet
1979-80 "Hebot I, II and III" – John FitzGerald
1979 – Heiserman – "Rodney"
Unknowns
Vodovnik
Other Models to include:
1956- Albrecht Hauenschild : Der Homeostat
1956- Albrecht Hauenschild : Der Homeostat
1929- Stevens
1933- Bennett – Ward
1956- Cecetto – Adamo II
1960- Huggins – Dog
1964- Cybernetic Cats
196x- Brooks – Norman
1974- Russian Cybernetic Dog "Barbos"
19xx- Romanian Dog – Nicolescu
2001- Poptronics Elsie Replica
Ashby – Homeostat
Bent Russell
C. J. Knight
Elektronik Bastelbook
Russian-Unknown
1956- Cecetto – Adamo II
1960- Huggins – Dog
1964- Cybernetic Cats
196x- Brooks – Norman
1974- Russian Cybernetic Dog "Barbos"
19xx- Romanian Dog – Nicolescu 2001- Poptronics Elsie Replica
Ashby – Homeostat
Bent Russell
C. J. Knight
Elektronik Bastelbook
Russian-Unknown
Maze Solvers moved to its own page here.
1920- Lux – Protozoon
1921- French Dog – Berger Toy
1950 – Tinius the Cybernetic Turtle – Rice University
1950 "Cybercar" Toy
1951 – Edmund C. Berkeley – "Squee"
1951-2 Paul-Alain Amouriq – Cybernetique Tortue (Tortoise)
1952?- MIT- unknown robot
1953 – Kubanoff – "Tim Turtle"
1954 – Eichler / Zemanek – Vienna Turtle
1955 – Cross – Phototropic Snail
1956 – "CYSP-1" – Nicolas Schöffer
c1950s French – Dan Dennett's "Tati"
1957 – Vasiliev / Petrovsky (Russian) – "Beta"
1959 – Sverdlovsk Cybernetic Tortoise
1959 – Cybernetic Mice play Hockey
1959-60 – Andrzej Harland – Artificial Turtle "CUPEL"
1960- Kretz / Angyan / Zemanek – "Machina Combinatrix"
1960s – Russian Cybernetic Tortoise – Unknown builder
1962-5- APL-JHU Hopkins "Beast" Mod II with extended sonar & vision
1962-6- "STeLLA" – John Andreae & Peter L. Joyce
1963c- Fred Chesson – Cybernetic Dog
1964- R. Oettel – "Omega"
1964 – Armand Delsemme – Cybernetique Tortue
1964- Hans Moravec – "ROBUG"
1964- "Fred" – John Holland
1965- Hans Bielowski / Zemanek- Schildkröte
1965- Russian Tortoise
1965 – Russian Dog
1966 – Russian Cybernetic Explorer
1966 – kybernetische Schildkröte at Otto von Guericke University
1967- Rosen, Nilsson, Raphael – "Shakey"
1968- "Toy-Pet Plexi-Ball" – Parkinson & Martin
1968 – Russian Cybernetic Bee
1968c – Johan de Boer Cybernetic Mouse
1969- "Astor" – Aston University
1969 – Russian Dog follows cable
1969 – Russian Tortoise
1969- "Emma" – G. C. Brown
1970 – Peter Vogel – "MERV"
1970 – Russian Tortoise
1971 – "Xee" – G.C. Brown
1972 – "Cyclops" – L.C. Galitz
1972 – Free Roving Machine – M. F. Huber
1975- Beetle Construction Model
1976- Gene Oldfield – "Entropy"
1977- "HILARE"
1980- SUPERKIM Meets ET-2
1984- Moth – Gene Oldfield
1987c- "Herbert" by Brooks, Connell & Ning
1988c – Cybernetic Dog – Myasum Alyautdinov (Russian)
1996-99- Tony Ellis "ELF" Electronic Life Form