a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
1898 – Diving Apparatus Patent by James E Holland. Publication number US638335 A Publication type Grant Publication date Dec 5, 1899 Filing date Dec 20, 1898 Priority date Dec 20, 1898 Inventors James E Holland Original Assignee Anton Lutz, James E Holland My invention relates to diving apparatus, and has special reference to such …
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1964 onwards – Marine Mammals and Ordnance Recovery Ahab, a 5,500 pound killer whale, recovers a piece of inert ordnance using an acoustic pinger to guide him during the Deep Ops project. The whale is also equipped with a grabber device and a hydrazine system to allow the object to float easily to the surface. …
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1907 – LE TRESOR DANS L'ABIME "LE TRESOR DANS L'ABIME" par Jean de LA HIRE – Edition ORIGINALE datée de 1907 1907 – "Le Fulgur" « Le Fulgur » – « Le Fulgur » Publication en épisode dans la revue « Le Globe Trotter » du Jeudi 21 Mars 1907, N° 268 au Jeudi 15 …
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Marvin Minsky with his Arm. Photo by Dan McCoy in OMNI Magazine, June 1980. Also called the "Tentacle" Arm. Marvin Minsky – Activating a dead crayfish claw Selected transcript "And that’s the anatomy of the mechanical arm I built that you see in the MIT Museum today" One of the first things that happened was …
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FIGURE 95.—The Scripps tensor arm. Stress on the nylon filaments actuates the arm. (Courtesy of V. C. Anderson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) The "tensor arm," conceived by Victor Anderson, at the Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL) of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, has 16 degrees of freedom (fig. 95). The entire arm is hydraulically actuated by …
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