a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
See similar video clip here. – RECIPROCATING LOAD CARRIER E. SNELL Patent number: 2430537 Filing date: Dec 8, 1944 Issue date: Nov 1947 See patent here. 1949 Multi-Ped Walking Tractor Manufacture: Multi-Ped Traction Limited, Edmonton, Alberta Engine: Case Model R tractor, 4 cylinder Wasukesha Edward ( Ward ) Snell of Wetaskiwin, Edmonton wanted to design …
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Pat Rawlings’ Rendering of the “Habot” Mobile Lunar Base Concept (courtesy of John Mankins, NASA HQ, and Neville Marzwell, Jet Propulsion Laboratory). Mankins’ Habot John Mankins introduced the Habitat Robot concept, “Habot,” in 2000 as a radical departure from traditional lunar base studies. The strongest attribute of the Habot is its “small is beautiful” emphasis. …
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Patent number: 491927 Filing date: Apr 8, 1892 Issue date: Feb 1893. See full patent here. Rygg Horse Pat 1893, filed 1892. No model. Cannot find any evidence that it was actually built.
j IMPROVEMENT IN TRACTION-ENGINES JOHN E. PRAUL Patent number: 221354 Filing date: Sep 26, 1879 Issue date: Nov 4, 1879. See patent here.
At the debut press conference, Handyman twirled a hoola hoop and wielded a hammer. Handyman slave station being held up by a G.E. "O" Man. Handyman was built between 1958-59 at Schnetectady, New York for the joint AEC-USAF Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program by Ralph Mosher. The idea of CAMs originated nine years ago when the …