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1979 – “Vintage the Robot” – Tony Ellis (British)

  SERVO 01.2004 Vintage Anthony Ellis, Conceptioneer (inventor / product developer, www.appliedmachineintelligence.co.uk) is the trailblazing roboticist behind our first modern robot from the past. If you're new to robotics, or haven't kept up with news from across the pond, you probably haven't heard of this "vintage" robot. Meet Anthony Ellis' 23-year-old creation,…
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1977 – “Maizie the Robot” – David Strange (British)

Maisie the Robot (c1977) with David Strange. From a comment below, David Strange informs me that the robot he called Maizie was a maze solving robot whilst he was working for the BBC Open University. It was used in several programmes on cognitive psychology. Thanks David. From further correspondence with David…
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1966 – Able Mabel – Meredith Thring (British)

    A prop for a Tomorrow's World segment in 1966 showing what Robots would be like in 1976. Although some parts appear to be electrically controlled (e.g. the popping eyes which are connected to the antenna 'ears'). the black slot is probably for the hidden operator to see what…
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1972-5 – TAIR Autonomous Robot – Amosov (Russian)

    The “Bible” of the Biocybernetics Department dnipt.irtc.org.ua/history.html In 1964 Nikolai Mikhailovitch Amosov formulated a hypothesis on the information processing mechanisms of the human brain. Within this hypothesis he expressed his system-level observations on the brain’s structure and the mechanisms that are made operational by a human’s mental functions.…
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1977 – Klatu the Household Android – Quasar Industries (American)

Anthony Reichelt - president of Quasar Industries Inc. with Klatu sporting 'eyes' c1978. Klatu - [the name Klatu, it was claimed at the time, was based on the utterance of the speech synthesizer chip when the word "u-talk" was spoken in reverse. "Gort" is the name of the Robot in the movie "The Day…
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1983 – ODEX-1 Functionoid Walking Robot – Stephen J. Bartholet (American)

ODEX I is a tele-operated walking machine. Initially developed by Steve Bartholet. Pic shows wooden mock-up. (pic from SERVO June 2004 article here.) see Popular Science Sep 1984 pdf here. see Robotics Age Sep-Oct 1983 pdf here. See ODEX-1 patents here:     There was an ODEX II and and ODEX III.…
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1970 – Conductor Robot – (Russian)

"Robot conductor was made by Russian children of the Oblast Station of Younf Technicians. According to the Soviets, robot has worked with Moscow's transportation system, greeting passenders and keeping accounts of tickets." Construction plans for a similar Robot Conductor (1973). See pdf here. VIDEO CLIP - see video clip here.
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