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My research into the world of early robots and automatons occassionally unearths some interesting articles. Here's one of them. Whilst not related to my main theme, I thought I would publish it anyway. This article is amazingly prescient - imagining a world with personal listening devices, talking books etc - iPods…
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"Psycho" at the Museum of Science, London. (Image source: Mechanical Toys - Charles Bartholomew) My intent in putting up this entry is to draw attention on the aspect of remote control by which the slave component is anthropomorphic. This fits in with the early history of teleoperators and manipulators. All…
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John Gaughan's version of "The Turk" Like my post on Maskelyne's "Psycho" and "Zoe" automatons, the interest here is its place in history in terms of remote master-slave manipulators, and I shall confine myself to just that. There is significant other matter on "The Turk" published elsewhere already. Well established as a fake…
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This page displays images of robots that I know little of or nothing about. It will be updated as I discover more material. If you can identify the robot or you have further information about it, please contact me on cyberne1 at cyberneticzoo dot com . Miscellaneous and Unknown Robots (newest…
My initiial intention with this posting was to show "Zoe" as an example of an early Anthropomorphic mechanical master-slave manipulator as well as being a drawing machine. What is presented are some images and illustrations of John Nevil Maskelyne's "Zoe", and an operational description of what could be "Zoe", but nevertheless a…
I recently placed on Youtube a video clip (see below) of the Torres Chess Computer as demonstrated at the Congress on Cybernetics in France of 1951. I wasn't going to put a post together as I still have a lot of work to do in completing my existing categories. I've rushed…
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[Source: A Century of Toys From The London Toy & Model Museum, 1982, Exhibition Catalogue] Blurb from Youtube: A very rare and clever toy produced in Germany approximately 1885 until about 1905. The little hand-cranked tin artist draws with a graphite stick onto paper via 'programmed' double-cams (x and y…
Make Your Own Robot - Cummings 1981 - Mechanical Toy Artist
Press Photo of Raymond Auger's Painting Machine 1962. ROBOT ART: "Take home a machine-made painting while U want it," reads the sign over the door of the "Automatic Art Show" in a shop in New York's Greenwich Village. Presiding over it is Raymond Auger, a bearded painter who believes in…
Modern Mechanix Nov, 1931 Video Lady Robot Used to Write Window Display Advertising IN THIS mechanical age machinery is being substituted for human beings in every possible and conceivable situation. One of the latest and most unique pieces of machinery to be put to use to supplant human agency is…
The VOR (Volitionally Operant Robot) is the robot of the future. Its sophisticated capabilities reflect state-of-the-art advances in robotics and artificial intelligence. Microelectronics technology has endowed the VOR with powers of sensory perception as well as locomotion and memory. It is able to comprehend and synthesize speech as well as…
In the picture above, 17-year old Frank Grimes of Alphington, near Exeter, is seen introducing his cat to a mechanical man he has made out of odds and ends. It is powered by an electric motor, but only Frank knows the secret of how it walks backwards and forwards, swings…
(Source: Popular Mechanics October 1948)
This page will contain a timeline showing various Schoolboy / Science Fair Robots, events, and dates being the creation or announcement of the robots. For the moment, it is more a list of what is going to be placed in this blog. If image is clickable, then a blog post exists for…
Source: Popular Mechanics August 1965. Robot Flexes 35 Joints to Test Space Suits - Popular Science May 1967. When you do physical work—pushing, pulling, lifting, twisting, gripping—you encounter resistance. but how many pounds of force must you exert to overcome it? It's difficult to gauge. That's the job these articulated…
(Source: Nat Geo Nov 1970) The patient that always comes back Lifelike in its apparent distress, a plastic- skinned manikin known as Sim One —for simulated patient No. 1 — serves as a durable guinea pig for an anesthesia student and his instructor, right, at Aerojet-General Corporation's Electronics Division in…
(Image courtesy Tim Hornyak - author of "Loving the Machine" 2006) Text from the same book, p38 ... In 1929, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, which featured the female robot Maria, opened in Japan and proved a wild success. The following year saw an exhibition titled "Tokyo in the Year 1990" at…
GIANT MECHANICAL MAN WALKS CITY STREETS For centuries mechanicians have busied themselves with mechanical figures, or automatons, Which could imitate the actions of men and beasts. They have devised mechanical butlers, flute players, buglers, tambourine players, and chess players; but it remained for an American inventor to build the steel…
(Source: Popular Mechanics May 1918)
"Ruffnik's moniker was a riff on the name of the first Russian space satellite "Sputnik," launched the same year that 3-D Danny premiered on Channel 13. Constructed by the prop department at WKY-TV, Oklahoma City, and shipped to Channel 13 in a large, coffin-shaped crate, "Ruffnik" was a virtual duplicate…
Source and further imformation, see here. (from GroupBlog 222 and 10/3/2006 email) Sharon Berry told us about the creation of Oom-A-Gog, Mark I: My daddy, Jerry Berry, made Oom-A-Gog when I was 2 or 3 years old. It was on a TV cartoon show called Dr. N. Ventor here in…
Source: http://www.broadcastpioneers.com/rivets-golf.html - also contains video clip. Alan Scott & Mr. Rivets "Let Scott Do It" WPTZ, Channel 3 1954 There was a mechanical man on WPTZ, Channel 3 from 1952 to 1956. His name was Mr. Rivets and he was portrayed by Broadcast Pioneers member Joe Earley. The program…
Reading Thoughts by Radio (Source: Popular Mechanics - May, 1924) Can thoughts be read by radio? “Madam Radora” seems to prove that they can. Madam is not a human being, but a life-size automaton shown at the Permanent Radio Fair in New York. Her “thoughts” and movements are controlled entirely…
Text and some images sourced from here - http://www.spawar.navy.mil/robots/land/robart/robart.html This link also contains other links to ROBART information, not covered here. ROBART-I was Bart Everett's thesis project at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. and one of the very first behavior-based autonomous robots ever built. The navigation scheme provided…
GYRO The Robot was created for a children's show on WICC-TV Channel 43. He was designed and built by the Art Director of WICC-TV Morgan Kaolian in 1954. GYRO joined TRIXIE THE CLOWN on the children's show. Trixie (Dick Chalmers) did tricks while GYRO drew pictures about outer space and…
ROBOTIAN-LIKE COSTUMED FIGURE - Ernest Walling - see full patent design here. Patent number: D171959 Filing date: May 27, 1953 Issue date: Apr 1954 It looks as if it was easier for Westinghouse to use people inside Robot costumes going forward. The old robots Vocalite, Elektro, were getting on and…
Source: Nevada State Journal 12 Dec 1940.
Robot appearing at a French fairground side-show in 1935. Other than these images, I have very little information on this side-show "Robot Man". Robot appearing in an Italian film c 1950.
Mechanical Man Exposed; Talks Freely - (Source - Fitchburg Sentinel, 18 Feb 1935.) The "Mechanical Man" isn't. "It" or "he" is a human being, adept at impersonating a mechanical man, robot or some similar electric device. This was disclosed last night at the Oyster Bar when he was publicly "opened,"…
Albert Creuziger was a German 'inventor' who exhibited 'Rupert' in England. Creuziger used bluff to prevent close scrutiny of his so-called robot "...Of course, there were many people who wanted at all costs to more closely get acquainted with "Rupert"'s structure to understand the many wonders. But everyone refused Creuziger engineer.…
from The Syracuse Herald 9 May 1935. Both the Electrical Circus, with its thrilling Chicago entury of Progress demonstrations of man-made lightning, black light, the electric eye, and electric robots with both tastes and sounds vegetable ripeness, and Robota. the mechanical man, remain bright spots of the big Exposition. Describlng…
A photograph of a woman listening to the 'telepathovox', taken by an unknown photographer for the Daily Herald newspaper on 17 August, 1935. Displayed on the Marconiphone stand at the Radiolympia show held at Olympia, London, the device was described as an 'amazing machine which answers questions in an uncanny…
Alpha the Robot at the 1935-7 San Diego Exposition held at Balboa Park. Alpha the Robot kidnapping Queen Zorine of the Nudists. 1935 - Alpha the Robot [Image date incorrect]. Called “Zoro Gardens,” the exhibit featured 50 nudists from “nature cults” all over the world. The colony was presided over…
information sourced from http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/25847 But thanks to a recent eBay purchase and some additional research of my own, I now know the still to be precisely what it claims to be... an MGM publicity still, circa 1928, when LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT was enjoying its initial run in theatres. The 'mystery…
TIN MAN AS WALKING ADVERTISEMENT - Popular Science Nov 1910. A hardware dealer in Clintonville, Wis., recently built a giant tin man of materials on sale in his store, hired a man to walk the streets inside of it, and as a result drew much attention to his wares. The giant…
What is it about Robots and Pretty Girls? Are they omnipotent? masculine? the ultimate female partner? I've also observed, maybe in the age of 'political correctness', that we no longer see these types of images. See Part 1 of Robots and Girls (images) here. See Part 2a of Robots and…
What is it about Robots and Pretty Girls? Are they omnipotent? masculine? the ultimate female partner? I've also observed, maybe in the age of 'political correctness', that we no longer see these types of images. See Part 1 of Robots and Girls (images) here. See Part 2a of Robots and Girls…
See Cinemagic complete article in this pdf.
In 1953, the Soviet acrobat, athlete, illusionist Anatoly Sokol (his real surname was Sadokha) has prepared an original attraction "The Miracles without Miracles". The stunts, built on the use of telemechanics, high frequency currents, ultrasound, radio engineering (radio engineers A. Tyushkevich and V. Sidyakin), were performed for the first time…