Tag: Mechanical Man

[RH-Mar 2010 – any further information on this robot greatly appreciated.]

Mechanical «person», on behalf of TUP, was created not by scientists and engineers: it was designed and built the students from the eight – Rural schools Bvlamutovki Xmelnitskoy area. (Please forward a better translation if you have one)

Above pic shows the name "ЧТС" (HTC) . Otherwise it is the same robot as those below. The cover of one of Matskevich's books on robots. The construction of this robot is detailed in the above pamphlet. The folded broadsheet is not reproduced here. The illustration on the pamphlet is of another Matskevich robot. Вадим …

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See video clips here and here. I don't know much about Romoletto (also called "Romollo II" by someone else on the net).  He was shown at the IV RASSEGNA INTERNAZIONALE ELETTRONICA NUCLEARE E TELERADIO-CINEMATOGRAPHICA exhibition in Rome, 1957. Maybe someone could offer a transcription of the Italian voiceover in the video clips.

Radio Control Models & Electronics, September 1960 p244-5 CYGAN – Dr. Fiorito’s Giant Electronic Robot From Italian Rassegna di Modellismo This fantastic model is the work of Dr. Ing. Fiorito, a keen aeromodeller from Turin, who has been working on a whole series of such models and fitted them with radio control circuits. Construction – …

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