Tag: Automaton

Dr. Lube's 'Mr. Eisenbrass' Characteristics: Electrically powered – electro-magnets, solenoids Rubber skin Activated by piano-style keyboard Stand-up. bow, sit down. Electro-mechanical voice styled after Prof. Faber's machine From 'The Racine Advocate' 10th May 1848 p1 Article also appeared in Scientific American Vol3#34-13May1848 p272 but written in 3rd person. [Note that some of the pre-amble hasn't …

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The robots that are in this category of my blog are those that look and attempt to behave like human beings according to their creator's abilities and available technologies. Although I'll use the word "humanoid", words such as "humaniform" and "anthropomorphic" tend to be used as well.  My focus is also on Robots at the beginning of …

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