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1959 – Cybernetic Mice play Hockey – Mullard (British)

An early example of multiple robotic creatures operating together. Other than light and touch sensors, there's no other apparent interaction with them. Possibly an early but simple example of swarm robotics and collaborative robots. English translation of article text: To emphasize wont in machine control, a British firm [Mullard] of electronic…
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1937 – A Radio Robot – Everard Edmonds

A Radio Robot By EVERARD EDMONDS Constructional Details of an Amusing Robot that Talks and Sings are Given in this Article.  Source: December 4th, 1937    PRACTICAL AND AMATEUR WIRELESS    p337 MAN has created figures in his own image from the very earliest times. One recalls the Colossi of the Ancient World ;…

1933 – “Tillie the Technocrat” Robot – (American)

"Tillie the Technocrat" robot, most likely inspired by Westinghouse's Katrina Van Televox of 1930. Although not a humanoid robot, like Katrina, the "robot" is anthropomorphised by a 2-dimensional cut-out figure.  Caption: Junior High School Pupils Construct Robot 3 Feb 1933 During their spare time, pupils of May Cooke Junior High…
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1932 – “The Iron Man” Robot – (American)

A 7 foot robot nicknamed The Iron Man, used to promote coming attractions. The Ben Ali Theatre was located at 121 East Main, Lexington, Kentucky, USA. 12/7/1932, Image Source: Lafayette Studios collection #1444a. "The Iron Man", a static robot, would name all the forthcoming movies when asked. It currently unknown if this was done…
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1934 – MACAZ Robot – Ángel Surís Busto (Cuba)

Macaz - Cuba's first robot that, it's claimed, could "walk" (roll), turn, talk, smoke, shake hands, and can get slowly upright. Made of aluminum, iron, brass, lead, copper and weighing 350 lbs. It's possibly the first mobile "robot" made since the coinage of the word, although there were other mobile mechanical men that appeared…
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1958 – Voice-controlled Lawn Mower – Concept (American)

Image Source: Corbis. Electricity may do your yard work. One day, by simply speaking into a microphone, you may be able to command an electric "gardener" to mow the grass, cultivate the flower beds, trim the hedge and do other yard work. And all the while you'll be relaxing in…
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1959 – Lawn Mower (Concept) – Arthur Radebaugh (American)

Arthur Radebaugh was a futurist illustrator, airbrush artist, and industrial designer. He produced a significant body of work for automotive industry advertisements. He was noted for his artistic experimentation with fluorescent paint under black light, an interest that stemmed from his design work for the U.S. Army. From 1958 to…
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1950 – REO Remote-control Lawn Mower – Paul Rosenberg (American)

Source: Life Magazine, 26 Jun 1950 WITH A REO SALESMAN AT THE REMOTE CONTROLS, THE MOWER DOES FIGURE EIGHTS AND LOOPS ON THE TURF AT MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE'S STADIUM LAZY MAN'S MOWER It can cut a lawn or a figure 8, all by one-watt remote control Partly to sound out…
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1954 – “Homko” Robot Remote-controlled Lawnmower – (American)

Want to lie in your hammock and mow the lawn in repose? The Homko Robot mower can be maneuvered by a remote control panel, one lever for forward, stop and reverse, and another for right and left. Since the cord that attaches this brain to the mower is 40 feet…
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1954 – Radio-controlled Lawnmower – William M. Brobeck (American)

William "Bill" M. Brobeck  joined the UC Berkeley lab in 1937 and moved several years later to Orinda with his late wife, Jane Knox. Their home became a local landmark in the mid-1950s, after Mr. Brobeck used his engineering talents to build an automatic lawn mower. Neighborhood kids would gather outside…
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1950 – Fairbanks-Morse “Grass Finder” Rotary Power Lawn Mower – (American)

The gasoline-powered Fairbanks-Morse Grass Finder has no cord. Run it around the outside of your lawn once to give it the feel of things and from then on it runs itself, feeling for the high uncut grass with its left hand, as it were, and following along the edge of…
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1950 – Radio-controlled Lawnmower – Jim Walker (American)

Source: Popular Science, Mar 1950 Mows Lawn by Radio—Pretty Soft!    WHILE his robot lawn mower chugs around the lawn, Jim Walker, of Portland, Ore., takes it easy in his glider, sipping a cool drink and operating the radio controls.   Walker, a radio ham, long-time builder of radio-controlled model…
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1938 – Remote-Controlled Lawn Mower – Alvin Lodge (American)

Source: Mechanix Illustrated, Oct, 1938 (from blog.modernmechanix.com ) Builds Remote Control Lawn Mower Device Attaching two electric – motors, an old paint can, a wooden mixing bowl from a kitchen, sundry gears, wires and drive belts to a regulation lawn mower, Alvin Lodge, an unemployed mechanical engineer of Millersville, Pa., constructed…
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1997/2002 – Electrolux Trilobite Robotic Vacuum Cleaner – Anders Haegermarck, Lars Kilstrom, Bjorn Riise (Swedish)

Product Description (of Version 2.0) Imagine pushing a button, walking away, and having clean floors an hour later. That futuristic scenario is now here with the Trilobite, the hands-free, "intelligent" robotic vacuum first introduced in Europe by Electrolux. While it isn't the first robotic home vacuum, the Trilobite is a…
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1997 – Noo-Noo Robotic Vacuum Cleaner (Prop) – Mark Dean (British)

Noo-Noo (operated by Mark Dean) is the Teletubbies' sky blue pet. He is in Teletubbyland as a type of vacuum cleaner. He rarely leaves the House. He doesn't speak like Teletubbies can; he makes sucking and slurping noises. At times, Noo-Noo gets annoyed with the Teletubbies' antics or get too…
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1983 – Household Robot with Floor sweeper and mop (Concept) – (Japanese)

1983 Household robot concept by a Japanese magazine. As well as the floor scrubber and mop, there are other cooking and serving functions as well. (Source : ?) See other early remote-controlled and robotic vacuum cleaners and floor scrubbers here.
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1990-2002 – Panasonic Vacuum Cleaning Robot – (Japanese)

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., produces its first patent for a "Self-Running Cleaning Apparatus" in 1990. Publication number US5109566 A . Also published as US5284522 Publication date May 5, 1992 Filing date Jun 28, 1990  Inventors Osamu Eguchi, Yasumichi Kobayashi, Shinji Kondoh, Haruo Terai, Hidetaka Yabuuchi Original Assignee Matsushita Electric Industrial…
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Early Domestic Service Robots

Early Automatic and Robotic Floor Cleaners  1899 - L'AN 2000 Floor Sweeper Prediction  1928 - Televox capable of switching appliances on and off  1940 – “Roll-Oh” the Domestic Robot  1949 - Tony Sale - George the Robot attempting Vacuuming  1955 - Sonic Broom  1957 - RCA/Whirlpool HECK and Automatic Floor Cleaner…

1899 – EN L’AN 2000 Remote-Controlled Electric Floor Scrubber – Jean-Marc Côté (French)

The maid remote-controlling the electric floor scrubber. France in the Year 2000 (XXI century) – a series of futuristic pictures by Jean-Marc Côté in France in 1899. Originally in the form of paper cards enclosed in cigarette/cigar boxes, the images depicted the world as it was imagined to be like…
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