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"Sparky" the Robot Pup appeared in Dec 1958-Jan 1959 issues of Popular Electronics. Full pdf here Sparky the Robot Pup PE Dec 1958-Jan 1959.   HOW IT WORKS When main switch S1 is closed, all relays stay in their unactivated position and power is supplied only to the drive motor (M2) and "eye" lights. The …

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  Here's a cut down version of the first page. The full article is found by the pdf link at the bottom of this article. A clever New York radio engineer, Mr. Paul Von Kunits, has created "Mr. Radio Robot," a remarkable device which is attracting unusual attention and proving a source of profit to …

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See patent here Patent number: 1008348 , by Horace A. Mann Filing date: Jul 11, 1910 Issue date: Nov 1911

Placemarker entry only from Des Moines Daily News 14 Jan 1906 p10  IN VAUDEVILLE. James Bingham, the ventriloquist, with his mechanical walking figures will appear this week.   [If anyone has any further information on Bingham's walking figures I will add it here and credit you with it.]

Above: Mr. 'Rastus Robot, the most lifelike of mechanical men, conducting a conversation with S. M. Kintner, assistant vice-president of the Westinghouse Co., Mr. Robot needs some prompting, it is true; that is given by the flashlight in his interlocutor's right hand, which controls the "sound-on-film" conversation previously rehearsed. Here we have 'Rastus playing the …

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