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1952 – “Theseus” Maze-Solving Mouse – Claude Shannon (American)

Internals showing N-S, E-W carriage, Relays, Uni-selector, motors, amongst other electrical components.  See 18 mins 51 secs in for 27 seconds. See 9 mins 16 secs in for 32 seconds. As the 1952 maze solver was recently at the MIT Museum. Picture from Life Magazine 28 July 1952. Top trace…
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1988c – Cybernetic Dog – Myasum Alyautdinov (Russian)

VADIM MATSKEVICH Entertaining ANATOMY OF ROBOTS Published by the Radio and Communication ", 1988 CYBERNETIC TOY program-controlled Fig. 82 depicts a funny puppy who goes merrily wagging his tail, barks, turning his head left and right, stopping, looking around, and then again with the barking continues to move. He constructed…
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1964 – “The Pud” Steam-powered robot – C. Hampton (British)

A Radio Controlled, Reversible, Steam Powered Christmas Pudding Is "the Pud" an earlier form of the "Crabfu" type of  machine? 
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1954 – Thodar the Robot – Ron Hezel (American)

See story as told on TV - "Robot inventor speaks out about his journey" Video By: Mark Repasky : 02/11/2008 - 09:36 PM The Story of Thodar© as seen on YouTube May 2009 ( Video story about Thodar© starts 2.28 minutes into the report.) see Ron Hezel's website here. Thodar…
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1968 – Phony Pony – Frank, McGhee (American)

Leg detail - motors are modified power drills. From George A. Bekey - Autonomous Robots - From Biological Inspiration to Implementation and Control (2005) The first autonomous quadruped robot in the United States was constructed in the 1960's at the University of Southern California; it was dubbed the Phony Pony…
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1968 – Iron Mule Train – R. A. Morrison (American)

Although referred to as the "Iron Mule Train", only one carriage was built for test purposes. I believe it was Frank Tinsley's original idea in extending Space General's original Moonwalker that inspired Morrison into promoting this third variant (the other being the Moonwalker disability walker after NASA's cancellation of the…
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1961 – Iron Mule Train (Concept) – Frank Tinsley (American)

Although published in 1962, the illustration is dated 1961. Frank Tinsley's concept pre-dates A. J. Morrison's "Iron Mule Train" by about 7 years. Given the cancelled Space programme for an un-manned lunar misssion, I wouldn't be surprised that Tinsley's concept inspired Morrison in resurrecting the Moonwalker project (having already had a…
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1961 – Moonwalker Lunar Rover – Space General Corp. (American)

Space General designers have built an insect-like vehicle with six legs, two arms, a triangular body, a solar-cell panel, and an antenna. The left arm, ending in a claw, picks up objects to examine. The right one holds a TV camera to do the looking - and to see where…
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1956 – GE Yes-Man Teleoperator – Ralph Mosher (American)

Life Magazine 28 May 1956 p 125. The disembodied device graciously helping the girl with her coat (above) is one of the most dexterous robots yet designed. Its arms have elbows that bend, wrists that swivel and three-clawed hands. Still being perfected by G.E., it is an electro-mechanical slave called…
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1940 – Walking SuperTank – Hutchinson and Smith (British)

This demonstration model was remotely controlled by means of flexible cables: the operator used one limb to control each leg.  The British firm W. H. Allen & Company, with A. C. Hutchinson and F. S. Smith, designed the first military related walking machine in 1940. The proposed armoured fighting machine…
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1957-60 – Walking Machine(s) – Joseph Shigley (American)

There are at least two variations of the walking machines attributed to Prof. Joseph E. Shigley, then from the University of Michigan.  The first relates to the pantograph leg with some descriptions suggesting up to 16 legs were to be used - 4 gangs of 4 legs so a leg was…
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1965-71 – G.E. Hardiman I Exoskeleton – Ralph Mosher (American)

One of the few photographs we see of Hardiman I.  I'd have a smile like that on my face too if I had one of these. Hardiman is a name derived somehow, from "Human Augmentation Research and Development Investigation." and Man from MANipulator.  Sometimes written as HardiMan, Hardi-Man, Hardi Man,…
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