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Miscellaneous and Unknown Robots

This page displays images of robots that I know little of or nothing about. It will be updated as I discover more material. If you can identify the robot or you have further information about it, please contact me on cyberne1 at cyberneticzoo dot com . Miscellaneous and Unknown Robots (newest…

1877 – “Zoe” the Drawing Automaton – John Nevil Maskelyne (British)

My initiial intention with this posting was to show "Zoe" as an example of an  early Anthropomorphic mechanical master-slave manipulator as well as being a drawing machine. What is presented are some images and illustrations of John Nevil Maskelyne's "Zoe", and an operational description of what could be "Zoe", but nevertheless a…
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1911-20 – Chess Playing Machines – Leonardo Torres y Quevedo (Spanish)

I recently placed on Youtube a video clip (see below) of the Torres Chess Computer as demonstrated at the Congress on Cybernetics in France of 1951. I wasn't going to put a post together as I still have a lot of work to do in completing my existing categories. I've rushed…
Read more » 1911-20 – Chess Playing Machines – Leonardo Torres y Quevedo (Spanish)

1895 – Mechanical Toy Artist – Caroline Spilsbury Pocock (British)

[Source: A Century of Toys From The London Toy & Model Museum, 1982, Exhibition Catalogue] Blurb from Youtube: A very rare and clever toy produced in Germany approximately 1885 until about 1905. The little hand-cranked tin artist draws with a graphite stick onto paper via 'programmed' double-cams (x and y…
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1955-62 – Painting Machine – Raymond N. Auger (American)

Press Photo of Raymond Auger's Painting Machine 1962. ROBOT ART: "Take home a machine-made painting while U want it," reads the sign over the door of the "Automatic Art Show" in a shop in New York's Greenwich Village. Presiding over it is Raymond Auger, a bearded painter who believes in…
Read more » 1955-62 – Painting Machine – Raymond N. Auger (American)

1929 – Writing Robot – (American? / German?)

Modern Mechanix Nov, 1931 Video Lady Robot Used to Write Window Display Advertising IN THIS mechanical age machinery is being substituted for human beings in every possible and conceivable situation. One of the latest and most unique pieces of machinery to be put to use to supplant human agency is…
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1983 – VOR, OMNIVOR, OMNIVAC 1 – Tom Lonergan & Carl Frederick (American)

The VOR (Volitionally Operant Robot) is the robot of the future. Its sophisticated capabilities reflect state-of-the-art advances in robotics and artificial intelligence. Microelectronics technology has endowed the VOR with powers of sensory perception as well as locomotion and memory. It is able to comprehend and synthesize speech as well as…
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1955 – Robot – Tim Grimes (British)

In the picture above, 17-year old Frank Grimes of Alphington, near Exeter, is seen introducing his cat to a mechanical man he has made out of odds and ends. It is powered by an electric motor, but only Frank knows the secret of how it walks backwards and forwards, swings…

Early Schoolboy / Science Fair Robots

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This page will contain a timeline showing various Schoolboy / Science Fair Robots, events, and dates being the creation or announcement of the robots. For the moment, it is more a list of what is going to be placed in this blog. If image is clickable, then a blog post exists for…

1965 – NASA Robot Astronaut – (American)

Source: Popular Mechanics August 1965. Robot Flexes 35 Joints to Test Space Suits - Popular Science May 1967. When you do physical work—pushing, pulling, lifting, twisting, gripping—you encounter resistance. but how many pounds of force must you exert to overcome it? It's difficult to gauge. That's the job these articulated…

1967 – Sim One – Denson & Abrahamson (American)

(Source: Nat Geo Nov 1970) The patient that always comes back Lifelike in its apparent distress, a plastic- skinned manikin known as Sim One —for simulated patient No. 1 — serves as a durable guinea pig for an anesthesia student and his instructor, right, at Aerojet-General Corporation's Electronics Division in…
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1930 – Remarque the Robot (German)

(Image courtesy Tim Hornyak - author of "Loving the Machine" 2006) Text from the same book, p38 ... In 1929, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, which featured the female robot Maria, opened in Japan and proved a wild success. The following year saw an exhibition titled "Tokyo in the Year 1990" at…

1919 – Giant Walking Mechanical Man – Fern Pieper / Chas. Oehler (American)

GIANT MECHANICAL MAN WALKS CITY STREETS For centuries mechanicians have busied themselves with mechanical figures, or automatons, Which could imitate the actions of men and beasts. They have devised mechanical butlers, flute players, buglers, tambourine players, and chess players; but it remained for an American inventor to build the steel…
Read more » 1919 – Giant Walking Mechanical Man – Fern Pieper / Chas. Oehler (American)
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