1868 – Walking Vehicle – R. C. Vernol (American)
Patent number: 74176 Issue date: 1868 see here.
Tag: American
1969 – The Logo Turtle – Seymour Papert et al (Sth African/American)
Seymour Papert's Turtle is included in this category for various reasons: 1. It marks the start of the continuance of our need for realization of concepts in the real world, satisfying our thousands of years old quest to build objects that mimic living things, (typically man's own image, but animals as well). 2. The minimal …
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1968 – Toy-Pet Plexi-Ball – Robin Parkinson and Eric Martin (American)
Pic and article from The Machine: As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age by Pontus Hulten (Beautiful pressed-metal Hardcover – 1968) Robin Parkinson. American, born 1943 (artist) Eric Martin. American, born 1943 (engineer) Toy-Pet Plexiball-Ball. 1968 Plexiglass, electrical equipment, motor, microphone, synthetic fur bag; sphere, 11" diameter. The Toy-Pet Plexi-Ball has three …
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1965 – ADROIT Simulated Insect – Leonard Friedman (American)
At this stage I have very little information on Friedman's ADROIT. If I can get hold of his paper I will add exceprts here. —————- interesting reference from SRI Shakey's 1966 interim paper "Definition of the Automaton System Factors Influencing the Choice of a Mission There is not much prior art in the area of automata controlled …
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1963 – Conditioned Cybernetic Machine – Cautela and Mikaelian (American)
A Machine Capable of Being Conditioned Joseph R. Cautela; Harutune Mikaelian The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 76, No. 1. (Mar., 1963), pp. 128-134. RH2009-Its interesting to note that in the introduction is says "type of conditioned reflex machine developed by Slukin, who tells of a machine that was conditioned to respond to a whistle …
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