FRANCE - 1930: Woman and a robot. France, about 1935. (Photo by Gaston Paris/Roger Viollet/Getty Images)
TURIN, ITALY - circa 1950: This robot, as the protagonist of the first mechanic film, makes his first appearance for an essay, circa 1950 in Turin, Italy. (Photo by Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
TURIN, ITALY - circa 1950: This robot, as the protagonist of the first mechanic film, makes his first appearance before the cinematographic camera for an essay, circa 1950 in Turin, Italy. (Photo by Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
FRANCE - CIRCA 1934: Fun fair. France, about 1935. (Photo by Gaston Paris/Roger Viollet/Getty Images)
1955 - Mobile Remote Manipulator at Argonne National Labs. Sphere-mounted tongs, similar to those on Mobile Remote Manipulator. Popular Mechanics Feb 1955 Lead Shield on Wheels Guards Atomic Worker Electric motors propel a heavy, three-sided lead shield used in handling radioactive materials at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. The barrier,…
Published December 2, 1930. Buddy Deering: "For a Iong time I had been thinking of a Flying Robot - Radio-controlled with Attractor-beam propulsion. I had it built.....with this control box I can make it do anything and talk through it." Sundays / Buck Rogers S03 - Mysterious Saturnian (1930-09-14 to…
On Wednesday, July 24, 1929, a Buck Rogers cartoon strip was published depicting 'Iron Men', robots that are operated by radio control. It said that "each Robot's receiver and transmitter is permanently tuned to its own control box, and it can be controlled through no other." The robot's eyes included…
UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 01: Science Fiction Movie Scene At The Hyde Park In London On July 1979 (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
BRNO, CZECH REPUBLIC - NOVEMBER 24: A charming little robot called ' Miki' steals the show at hobby national exhibtion in electronic sector on November 24, 1965 in Brno, Czech Republic. (Photo by Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - circa 1920: 'Robot', the mechanical man invented and directed by Alban J Roberts, started at the Maskelyn's Theatre along the rest of the company, circa 1920 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
Walking the Thing Roboteer, who was manufactured by a firm in San Ramon, California, is accompanied by employee Judy Bently as the mechanized marvel uses its own street crossing on its way to an unannounced destination. Officials say the robot is designed to perform functions which are considered hazardous to…
MF3 Blocher-Motor GmbH & Co. KG, Metzingen, West Germany CMS Technologies, Inc., Ft. Lee, N.J., U.S. Distributor This device is a remotely controlled, tethered 4-tracked vehicle which is used in the nuclear industry and other hazardous environments. It was initially conceived and developed at the KFA Julich Research Laboratory in…
The PaR-1 mobile manipulator. The vehicle and manipulator are powered and controlled by cable. The manipulator arm and the two TV cameras are mounted on articulated booms. The height of the central support tube is 68 inches. PaR was a subsiduary of GCA when this model came out. PaR-1 with…