a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
(Image courtesy Tim Hornyak – author of "Loving the Machine" 2006) Text from the same book, p38 … In 1929, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, which featured the female robot Maria, opened in Japan and proved a wild success. The following year saw an exhibition titled "Tokyo in the Year 1990" at the Matsuzakawa department store in …
Albert Creuziger was a German 'inventor' who exhibited 'Rupert' in England. Creuziger used bluff to prevent close scrutiny of his so-called robot "…Of course, there were many people who wanted at all costs to more closely get acquainted with "Rupert"'s structure to understand the many wonders. But everyone refused Creuziger engineer. He stated that no one …
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Syntelmann II – Electric Tele-manipulator with 9 degrees of freedom per arm, position- and force-controlled sensors for forces, sounds, temperatures (in front), operator with exo-skeleton transducer system, force feedback system, and stereo image transmission system (in the back). The “Syntelmann” was developed by Kleinwaechter in Freiburg, Germany, parallel to the development of the Stanford Arm …
"Omega" Cybernetic Tortoise (Kybernetische Schildkröte) – R. Oettel – There is too much German for me to translate quickly. I'll do it at a much later time. The construction model appeared in the German magazine Funkamateur, as well as the booklet Der Praktische Funkamateur Band 54 Kybernetische Experimente fur den Amateur. I've attached the pdf …
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Either Hinz or Kunz as appeared in the 1962 Die Zeit article below. Hinz and Kunz (I can’t tell who is who at this stage) together with the electronic whistle. Hinz and Kunz appeared in the German robot exhibition “Die Roboter Kommen!” of 2007 Otto Walter Hasselof RH Note: Hinz and Kunz are significant in …
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