a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
1927 – Flexible Diving Armour by Karl Hipssich. Publication number US1722375 A Publication type Grant Publication date Jul 30, 1929 Filing date Mar 16, 1927 Priority date Mar 16, 1927 Inventors Karl Hipssich Original Assignee Karl Hipssich 1. A diving apparel in the form of a diving suit and adapted to withstand high external …
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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 1930-11-30). The Fair Prisoner (Sept …
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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 a lens for television transmission, …
Source: Panorama, 17 September 1929 DE OPENING VAN DE 4e INTERNATIONALE RADIO-TENTOONSTELLING TE AMSTERDAM vond Dinsdag j.l. plaats. De heer P. Geervliet exposeert er zijn mechanischen mensch, die op alle vragen antwoord geeft. THE OPENING OF THE 4th INTERNATIONAL RADIO EXHIBITION AMSTERDAM found Tuesday jl place. Mr P. Geervliet exhibits there are mechanischen man, who answers …
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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 almost human advertising contrivance, …