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1957-73 – “MM6″,”MM7 Selektor” & “MM8 Contina” Selektor – Claus Scholz (Austrian)

"MM7" on the left, Claus Scholz in the middle and "MM8" on the right.  Scholz made MM7 between 1957-8 and finished with MM9 in 1973, so I believe.  The MM7 Selektor human machine is the development for which the international scientist Scholz-Nauendorff, nicknamed the "Viennese father of robots", is best known.…
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1965 – ROSA BOSOM – Bruce Lacey (British)

R.O.S.A. B.O.S.O.M.   Radio Operated Simulated Actress -  Battery Or Standby Operated Mains (sometimes seen written as ROSA. BOSOM, or Rosa Bosom, or Rosabosom.) Image courtesy Bruce Lacey. Image courtesy Bruce Lacey. Image courtesy Bruce Lacey. Her finest moment was to win The Andrew Logan's Alternative Miss World competition in 1985.…
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1956 – “Robert the Robot” – Bernard Smith (Australian)

Above and below: "Robert" as he is today. These images are from the Scienceworks Science Museum's webpage (Photographed by Benjamin Healley). Reproduced courtesy of Museum Victoria.  This pdf gives some information as well. Robbie the Robot can currently be viewed as part of the Scienceworks collection store tour – just ask your…
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1949-50 – George the Robot – Tony Sale (British)

The first version of "George' the robot built when Tony Sale was seventeen years old in 1949. Compare with image below shows that this negative/print masked out the brand of vacuum cleaner.   The later version of "George" displayed bigger feet, broader shoulders, and with ears! I contacted Tony Sale in 2009…
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1916 – Pete’s Steam Man – Fiction (American)

A Penny Popular item from 1916 , this fictional story about the adventures of tthree comrades Jack, Sam, and Pete. Pete has a Steam Man. He appears with his own axe in both cover illustrations. Maybe he chops his own firewood? 
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1896 – Lathrop & Edison Walking Machine – (American)

Galveston Daily News 13 Dec 1896 (pdf here) In the Deep of Time by George Parsons Lathrop in collaboration with Thomas A. Edison For The News-Copyrighted. This story is the result of conversations with Thomas A. Edison. the substance of which he afterwards put into the form of notes written…
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1882 – “Aluminium” the Compressed-Air Horse – Greene (American)

La Porte City Review 16 Nov 1882 p2 (see pdf here) Fiction originally from Harper's Magazine How Aluminium Won The Grand Prix by William B. Greene "'This is my creation," continued Joe, stroking the animal's mane. "It is I who have breathed life into his nostrils." "Is he mad?" I…
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1958 – “Tortilla” Cybernetic Tortoise – (Ukraine)

Fig. 38. Schematic of the charge, voltage conversion, the element changes tropism and chain contact device "turtle" "Tortilla". Fig. 39. Schematic of extreme search direction of the "turtle" "Tortilla". Fig. 40. Schematic of reaction "turtle" "Tortilla" with the whistle. Information and images courtesy Waldemar DekaÅ„ski from Poland (January 2010). Hello…
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1976 – “Buster” Robot Animal – David L. Heiserman (American)

Although built using a child's electric car as the chassis, the fully functional Buster was a true Cybernetic Animal, showing reflexes, phototropism, and hunger / recharging modes. He could operate totally autonomously if so desired, but had manual overrides via a remote panel or remote control via an acoustic adapter.…
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1975 – “The Moth” Cybernetic Model – Keul & Lohr (Dutch)

elektor june 75 M. Keul and H. Lohr the moth This is a design for a simple cybernetic model, based on an electric toy car, that will be attracted towards a light source like a moth, negotiating obstacles in its path. The car has two motors, one to propel it…
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1975 – “Beetle” Cybernetic Model – (Dutch)

elektor june 75 beetle Beetles, tortoises and the like have often served as models for cybernetic machines which must also have a reasonable appearance. The beetle described in this article can 'see, hear and feel' and reacts to information in the form of sounds and movements. The animal has a…
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1969 – GE Walking Truck – Ralph Mosher (American)

Beginnings: The Times Record - 24 July 1962 p13 From as early as 1962, the General Electric Ordinance Dept. in Pittsfield, Mass., undertook a study for the US Army which may lead to the building of a manned walking machine, with arms and legs, ..... where tractors might get stuck.…
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1958 – “Cosmos the Robot” – Christian Dupont (French)

"MOVE OVER, HUMAN - Even a hard-bitten Parisian driver would be likely to obey that command from the odd driver of this odd vehicle. No visitor from another world. It's a homegrown robot named "Cosmos" which, like the helicopter in the background, was on display at a science exhibit on…
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1949-58 – “Mekko” & “Firato” – Eugene Wendling (Swiss/Dutch)

  Eugene Wendling's original robot from 1930 was called "Televox" (not to be confused with Wensley's "Televox" from America).  "Mekko" is probably either a rebuild or an upgrade of his earlier "Televox". Amsterdam, 1958. A recently discovered magazine article from 1936 shows the metallic "Mekko" from above but called "Televox"! You can see Wendling…
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1957 – “Romoletto” – (Italian)

See video clips here and here. I don't know much about Romoletto (also called "Romollo II" by someone else on the net).  He was shown at the IV RASSEGNA INTERNAZIONALE ELETTRONICA NUCLEARE E TELERADIO-CINEMATOGRAPHICA exhibition in Rome, 1957. Maybe someone could offer a transcription of the Italian voiceover in the…

1957 – “Gygan” aka “Cygan” aka “Mr Moto” – Piero Fiorito (Italian)

Radio Control Models & Electronics, September 1960 p244-5 CYGAN - Dr. Fiorito's Giant Electronic Robot From Italian Rassegna di Modellismo This fantastic model is the work of Dr. Ing. Fiorito, a keen aeromodeller from Turin, who has been working on a whole series of such models and fitted them with…
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1957 “Robetron” aka “Robotron” – Donald Rich (American)

14-year-old inventor Donald Rich with Robotron walking robot designed as a computer at International Gadget & Invention show at Madison Square Garden. [Getty image] (above image from Jim Linderman's site) text from Corpus Christi Times Fri Aug 9 1957 p10. DOES EVERYTHING BUT TALK - Ready to respond to his…
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1954-65 – “Mr. Robotham” – Peter Holland – (British)

VIDEO: SCHOOLBOYS EXHIBITION Your browser does not support iframes. A pdf containing the 1955 and the 1965 versions is available here. The larger version is descibed in the December 1965 issue  of Radio Control Models and Electronics, but in Radio-controlled form. It was built much earlier. Here's the introduction to…
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1912 – Seleno, the Electric Dog – Hammond / Miessner -Addendum

In my earlier post on the "Electric Dog" by Miessner and Hammond (here), I commented on some uncertainty regarding Miessner's and Hammond's relationship together, and as to whether or not there may have been another dog built. This was as a result of how the newspaper and magazine articles were…
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1868-1904 – Fictional Steam Man, Steam Horse, Electric Man & Electric Horse (American)

Edward S. Ellis' first of the dime or penny magazine fictional stories that featured the "Steam Man" had a publish date of August 1868, some 7 months AFTER the first known announcement of Dederick's actual "Steam Man" in January 1868. Note: There are those who have either mistaken or mis-represented the Ellis story…
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1954 – “Gismo the Peaceful” – Sherwood Fuehrer (American)

March 23, 1954 ROBOT DEMONSTRATED: In Cranston, R.I., yesterday—Sherwood Fuehrer, 13, operated the controls of a robot he built from cans, gears, motors, die castings and other articles too numerous to mention. The robot —5 feet 11 inches tall and weighing 92 pounds—can hold a plate of cookies and pass…
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1954 – “Magnamo” – Bill Allen (American)

Tin Can With An Idea - An imaginative Kansas teacher ( Bill Allen, Hamilton School in Wichita, Kan.) builds a robot to stir his students' interest in classroom science. Disappointed with his first-year performance as a general science teacher at Hamilton School in Wichita, Kan., Bill Allen figured that what…
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1953-68 – “Mr. Magnetron” – (British)

Mr. Magnetron - At the National Radio Show held at Earls Court, London, England, Signalman Mellor, of Manchester, introduces a young man to the robot Mr. Magnetron.  © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS   Date Photographed: September 1, 1953 Mr Magnetron 24th March 1954: Lieutenant Corporal Pauline Bevan and Private Smith of the…
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Early Mobile Robot Timeline

This page is a timeline showing early Mobile Robots, events, and dates being the creation or announcement of these robots. If image is clickable, then a blog post exists for it. Check out the updates page for the recent posts. Early Autonomous Mobile Robots   1953 - Beetle 1962 - "Creep…

Early Maze Solving Machines

This page contains a timeline showing early and significant Maze Solving machines. The dates being the creation or announcement date of these machines. IF IMAGE IS CLICKABLE, then a blog post exists for it. Check out the updates page for recent posts. 1933- Thomas Ross -Learning machine     1935- Smith / Ross - Rat    1937-…

1972 – “CYCLOPS” – L. C. Galitz (British)

"CYCLOPS" (CYbernetically  Controlled Light Oriented and Powered System) , built by L. C. Galitz as a construction project for The Radio Constructor [later renamed to Radio & Electronics Constructor from Jan 1973 onwards]. Cyclops is one of the last construction projects for a fully featured cybernetic model subscribing to the conditioned…
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1971 – “XEE” Cybernetic Animal – G. C. Brown (British)

XEE -pdf Practical Electronics June-July 1971 Practical Electronics June-July 1971 XEE HERE! An animal approximation utilising integrated circuits to process optical and tactile sensing together with a random control to give reasonable lifelike responses. By G. Brown There has been a considerable amount of correspondence relating to "electronic animals" following…
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1970 – “BERT” – Sam Newhouse (American)

see full pdf here. Personal Computing FEBRUARY 1978 p56-61 BERT (excerpt) Building Your BASIC Robot Robots vary in sophistication and control structure, from Mars-walking space probes and industrial assembly robots to self-motivating household pets and computer-controlled "turtle" drawing robots. My interest in these simple mobile computer input-output devices, robots, led…
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1970 – “MERV” – Peter Vogel (Australian)

Meet MERV - Electronics Today (Australia) April 1971 MERV stands for Mobile Environmental Response Vehicle. Its creator, Peter Vogel, built it to demonstrate his theory on artificial intelligence IS it true that machines are incapable of intelligence, or can they in fact be endowed with reasoning power?' One answer —…
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1964 – “ROBUG” – Hans Moravec (Austrian / Canadian)

ROBUG: switch-programmable to wake/seek/avoid on light/touch/wind; feelers charged to 90 volts! "In high school [Montreal,1964] he [Hans Moravec] won two science fair prizes for a light-following electronic turtle and a tape-controlled robot hand. As an undergraduate he designed a computer to control fancier robots, and experimented with learning and automatic programming…
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