a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
Extract from article by Tom Carroll, Servo Magazine, Nov 2006. The above picture shows a robot vacuum cleaner that was a work of art, though a bit tall to clean under most furniture. Frank Jenkins of the Robotics Society of California demonstrated his home vac for our group 15 years ago. At 23 inches high …
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Robo-Vac: Televac, a robot vacuum cleaner that runs on a timer, rotates in six-degree increments as its flat-lying hose extends 18 feet under furniture. Obstacles are detected by a sensor on the nozzle. Televac is shown below with and without its cover. US Patent information: Automatic vacuum cleaner Publication number US5095577 A Publication date Mar …
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Christopher Noessel from scifiinterfaces.wordpress.com has already done such a great job in describing the robot vacuum cleaner from the 1997 movie "The Fifth Element" that I have re-blogged his post here: Floor sweeping robots – 22 Apr 2013 by Christopher Noessel To illustrate his capitalist ideology, (a high-tech version of the parable of …
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MASCOT – (MAnipulatore Servo COntrollato Transistorizzato) ELECTRONIC EXHIBITION IN ROME – 1962 See MASCOT 0:59 secs into above clip at the Palace of Congresses in Rome for the IX Congress of Electronics Exhibition. Later models of MASCOT were made by Elsag Bailey in the early 1990's. The Mascot first produced by the firm SELENIA in …
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To Stanley….From Mille Merragan & Shrozo 4/5/1920. Thanks to Valeria and her Retro Geek Girl website for the larger image to one I referenced in my Enigmarelle post here. Any further information on "Shrozo" most welcomed. There was a spate of living automatons appearing over a similar period of time having similar names -see Moto Phroso, Moto …