a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
Earlier 1976 version sans stereo cameras. See a few seconds of McGhee's OSU Hexapod in motion in my walking machine compilation video clip. Stop Press! 20 Oct 2010: Just found fabulous footage of this walker plus others. 50meg download. mp4 runs for 16 mins. see here. McGhee used Electric drill's to power the legs, similar …
Masha being used in some force-feedback experiments. The experiment here to feed a cylinder into an inclined funnel. See Devjanin-Schneider paper here. The above three images show experimentation by Gorinevsky. His paper is available here. Gorinevsky produced a video of the walking machine. After many media transformations, the quality is poor. See here.  The …
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Interface Age article pdf here BOOK REVIEW from early KIM magazine TITLE: How to build a computer controlled robot AUTHOR: Tod Loofbourrow PUBLISHER: Hayden Book Co. #5681-8 $7.95 If youre looking for a book which presents a nuts and bolts approach to robot construction–you'll want to look at this book! The author starts …
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ENTROPY— BUILDING A ROBOT FROM SCRATCH Gene Oldfield, began building his first major homebrew robot around 1976. Entropy, as it was called, was a mobile, three-wheeled robot powered by a car battery. A KIM single-board computer was interfaced to the sensors and relays by only seven microchips, which means that most of the processing was …
A period photo of SABOR as "ORBITUS" – Image courtesy Barbara Douvalakis – Peter Steuer's daughter. SABOR V in the "Die Roboter Kommen!" exhibition in Berlin, 2007. Sabor's remaining spares held in the EBM Museum, Switzerland. SABOR V with his "Orbitus" head gear taken off. In 1964, Sabor conformed to the astronaut look and temporarily …
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