a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
1970 – Expo-70 Robot. Vadim Matskevich with his students. "At the station, young technicians (ODT) Schelkovo Moscow region in 1969, the guys have created a cybernetic giant robot, successfully exhibited at the World Exhibition "EXPO – 70" in Japan." [RH Mar 2010- I suspect Matskevich had a hand in building this robot with the students.] …
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Illustration above showing a depiction of "ЧТС" shaking hands with "ТУМ". Вадим Викторович Мацкевич – Vadim Viktorovich Matskevich built quite a few robots in his lifetime. For further infomation on Matskevich, see here.
Above pic shows the name "ЧТС" (HTC) . Otherwise it is the same robot as those below. The cover of one of Matskevich's books on robots. The construction of this robot is detailed in the above pamphlet. The folded broadsheet is not reproduced here. The illustration on the pamphlet is of another Matskevich robot. Вадим …
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ROM (or V2M) as it appeared in the 1937 Paris Exhibition. Possibly the first Russian Humanoid Robot ever built. [Note: I haven't quite worked out the Russian <-> English translation of this Robots names as yet.] Retired Lieutenant Colonel Vadim Viktorovich Matskevich turned 82 years old [in 2002] . As well as writing many children's books on …
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