a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
1970 – Expo-70 Robot. Vadim Matskevich with his students. "At the station, young technicians (ODT) Schelkovo Moscow region in 1969, the guys have created a cybernetic giant robot, successfully exhibited at the World Exhibition "EXPO – 70" in Japan." [RH Mar 2010- I suspect Matskevich had a hand in building this robot with the students.] …
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Sometimes referred to as the "Robot from Kaliningrad". «Ð ÐÐœ» Built by: Ð. ÐœÐЛИÐОВСКИЙ , Ð. БИКЧЕÐТÐЕВ. A. Malinovsky, E. Bikchentaev. See pdf here containing "Radio" (Russian "Радио"), No 4 and 5 1970. Part 3 is here. VIDEO CLIP – see here.
[RH-Mar 2010 – any further information on this robot greatly appreciated.]
Electron (left) and Neptune (right) with child (Andryusha ?). Electron getting a drink (detail below). Source: Look and Learn – Young Scientist 1971 (Thanks to David Buckley for a copy of the original) Russian schoolchildren have been building robots who can wander through their city, Kalin[in]grad, and act as guides. They have assembled no fewer …
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tm_1971_09p43RobotsSirbijak3 1967-Sibiryak-СибирÑк google translate "Sibiryak-3" VNUK, SIBIRYAKA-1 " AND SON "Sibiryak-2, familiar to our readers (see TM No. 6, 1967). Made in the Omsk region house engineering students vocational training schools No. 2 and No. 5. Inherited the family profession guide Pavilion «Proftehobrazovanie» to VDNKh. The sequence of actions the robot is defined task, I …