a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
The RB5X is a personal robot manufactured by RB Robot Corporation of Golden, Colorado. A cylinder-shaped robot with an optional arm, and a transparent, dome-shaped top, RB5X has an RS-232 communications interface and is programmable in TinyBASIC or Savvy. It was first released in 1982. Its inputs include eight bumper panels, a photodiode and a …
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1982 – "A2W2" the Andy Warhol Robot. "I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do. I think everybody should be a machine." Andy Warhol, Nov 1963. Source: Times Daily, Oct 30, 1982. Alvaro Villa with some of his animatronic figures. Image …
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Inventor Shunichi Mizuno, now president of Cybot Corporation in Japan, at work on his robot. Image source: Robots, machines in man's image, Isaac Asimov, Karen A. Frenkel – 1985. Photo by Mark Wexler. Caption: Instead of diamonds, up to 20,000 electronic components are this girl's best friends. Low-[pressure] pneumatic valves controlled by a microcomputer give …
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1982 – RCV-150 Remote Controlled Vehicle System by Arthur B. Billet, principal engineer, Hydro Products, Inc., a Tetra Tech Co., wholly owned by Honeywell. Image Source: here. Technician checks out the RCV-150, Hydro Product's largest deep-diving robot vehicle, one of the increasing number of such remote-controlled devices that are rapidly replacing human divers for many …
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The 1982-4 – Telepresence Servicer Unit (TSU) Concept. Free-Flying Teleoperator 1. Thrusters 2. Vision sensors 3. Anchor arm 4. Manipulator arm 5. Vision sensor 6. Gripper 7. Thermal insulation 8. Light 9. Light 10. End effector rack 11. Spare part rack 12. Anchor arm 13. Communications and navigation antennas. As awarded under the Space Applications …
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