a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
1973 – Wheel Walker – Ralph Mosher Wheels Used as Legs It is understood that many ideas have been presented that involve a combination of wheel actions such as rotation and orbiting. The idea shown in Figure 49 is different in that an immobilized wheel experiencing slipping and bulldozing will transfer its action from wheel …
1973 – "Robbie" the Pulpit Robot by the Rev. Ron Mackenzie ROBOT IN THE PULPIT Sunday school with a difference: Helping the Reverend Ron Mackenzie is Robbie, the robot he designed and built himself 8 years ago. Robbie was built to help attract children to church and he has proved to be an enormous success. …
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An autonomous Warden building, servicing and maintaining Daedalus. Above image source: Robots, by Peter Marsh, 1985 Autonomy and the Interstellar Probe – Sourced from here. by Paul Gilster on March 19, 2013 daedalus_final_report …..The span between the creation of the Daedalus design in the 1970s and today covers the development of the personal computer and …
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The inflatable hand first appears at The First Annual International Computer Art Exhibition – Cybernetic ARTRIP, Oct. 6-21th. 1973 at the Ginza SONY Salon. See Shiro Takahashi's website here. When trying to squash a balloon having a particular shape, it is necessary to apply unexpectedly large force, and even if forcibly trying to squash the …
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Mr. Testu [Tetsu-Kun], unconfirmed name, also called Mr. Stamp. I've dated him as 1973, but I've also seen a reference to 1971. Mr. Tetsu on display after being restored at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology in Japan, 2008. The author with Mr. Tetsu in November, 2010. See the full Jiro Aizawa story here .