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In 1955 the U.S. Science-fiction serial Science Fiction Theatre there was an episode called "Time is just a place" where a young couple discovers that their neighbours, who possess a 'sonic broom' and many other technologically advanced household items, are fugitives from the future who have fled to the past to…
The console of HECK with the floor cleaner being activated. Mechanix Illustrated, Nov, 1959 HOW RCA IS PLANNING…. YOUR WORLD OF TOMORROW By James C. G. Conniff [edited version - see full text here.] An automated house with electronic devices that awaken you in the morning, make your bed, prepare…
The Jetsons live in the year 2062 in a futuristic utopia (100 years in the future at the time of the show's debut) of elaborate robotic contraptions, aliens, holograms, and whimsical inventions. Robotic vacuum cleaner. This console activates the washing, ironing, and vacuuming. Antennas imply radio-control. Image source Paleofuture Rosie…
In the film 'The Glass Bottom Boat', the inventor Bruce Templeton (Rod Taylor) tries to impress Jennifer (Doris Day) with his "Automatic floor-cleaning" robot after dropping banana peel on the kitchen floor. It only manages to pop out of its door to arc towards the dropped banana peel and through…
The "Little Dragon Carpet Sweeper" from the 1968 movie "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". The movie is set in 1910. The original contrivance is on show at Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum. Rowland Emett's 1968 sketch of the Little Dragon Carpet Sweeper. The "Little Dragon Carpet Cleaner" from 1968 This…
Computopia, a contraction of the words computer and Utopia, is a Japanese concept from the late 60s. This snippet of a robotic floor cleaner is from a set of great illustrations from the Japanese magazine Shonen Sunday who illustrated an article on the topic. Source and full set of illustrations…
US Patent Information: Publication number US4306329 A Publication date Dec 22, 1981 Filing date Oct 5, 1979 Inventors Gunpei Yokoi Original Assignee Nintendo Co., Ltd. Self-propelled cleaning device with wireless remote-control Abstract A self-propelled cleaning device with wireless remote control includes a body, a driving device on the body for…
Comro I with Vacuum Cleaner accessory. Above: ComRo I with the robot pet, Wires. (Text: Circa 1981) A bit more utilitarian than robots serving drinks or selling products is Jerome Hamlin's ComRo I. This robot made its debut in the latest Neiman-Marcus Christmas catalog. It operates two ways, by hand-held…
Dustbot ® 5409; SO-G ® was the first purpose-built robot to feature a built-in vacuum cleaner. Dustbot's large eyes flash red and his arms move creating a sweeping action for the broom, while his vacuum functions. He really vacuumes, he picks up small pieces of paper, dust, crumbs, etc. He…
Extract from article by Tom Carroll, Servo Magazine, Nov 2006. The above picture shows a robot vacuum cleaner that was a work of art, though a bit tall to clean under most furniture. Frank Jenkins of the Robotics Society of California demonstrated his home vac for our group 15 years…
Robo-Vac: Televac, a robot vacuum cleaner that runs on a timer, rotates in six-degree increments as its flat-lying hose extends 18 feet under furniture. Obstacles are detected by a sensor on the nozzle. Televac is shown below with and without its cover. US Patent information: Automatic vacuum cleaner Publication number…
Christopher Noessel from scifiinterfaces.wordpress.com has already done such a great job in describing the robot vacuum cleaner from the 1997 movie "The Fifth Element" that I have re-blogged his post here: Floor sweeping robots - 22 Apr 2013 by Christopher Noessel To illustrate his capitalist ideology, (a high-tech…
MASCOT - (MAnipulatore Servo COntrollato Transistorizzato) ELECTRONIC EXHIBITION IN ROME - 1962 See MASCOT 0:59 secs into above clip at the Palace of Congresses in Rome for the IX Congress of Electronics Exhibition. Later models of MASCOT were made by Elsag Bailey in the early 1990's. The Mascot first produced…
To Stanley....From Mille Merragan & Shrozo 4/5/1920. Thanks to Valeria and her Retro Geek Girl website for the larger image to one I referenced in my Enigmarelle post here. Any further information on "Shrozo" most welcomed. There was a spate of living automatons appearing over a similar period of time having…
Image Source: circusmuseum.nl Any further information on "Moto-Baby" most welcomed. See the full list of Fake and Pseudo Automatons and Robots here.
"Rose-Marie" the Robot with Will Mackford. The notes on the photographs are bilingual Flemish/French. [Thanks Serge De Man for the language origin.] Photo source here: Although William Mackford is an English name, the annotated images suggest the act to be Belgian-based. [Thanks Serge De Man for the language origin.] Any…
Above image Source: circusmuseum.nl Popular Electricity and the World's Advance - Volume 4 - Page 226 by Henry Walter Young - 1911 . This entrancing point was recently reached at Hamburg, where a vaudeville theater billed as its special attraction : "Moto Phoso-Man or Automaton ?" When the curtain rose for this…
Moto-Phéno die lebende Puppe: Vornehmste, interessanteste Schau der Gegenwart. Auch für Familien. Willi Schoenen gen: Moto-Phéno. Friedrich Hirsch, Impresario. Moto-Phéno, der einzige Mensch, der durch unbeugsame Willenskraft sich selbst hypnotisiert und in der Hypnose eine Puppe imitiert. Google English translation: Moto-PHENO the living doll: noblest, most interesting sight of the…
Anthropomorphicals I and II. 1964. Plexiglass and Aluminum. 65in. x 20in. x 24in. Richard Feigen Gallery, New York. 1965. Source: Beyond Modern Sculpture - Jack Burnham 1968 It would be misleading to classify [Hans] Haacke as an artist primarily devoted to applying cybernetic principles to mechanical artifacts; rather his interests…