a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
14-year-old inventor Donald Rich with Robotron walking robot designed as a computer at International Gadget & Invention show at Madison Square Garden. [Getty image] (above image from Jim Linderman's site) text from Corpus Christi Times Fri Aug 9 1957 p10. DOES EVERYTHING BUT TALK – Ready to respond to his master's directions is Robetron a …
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Anatole the Robot A radio controlled French robot made by Jean Dussailly. According to Tout Savoir magazine for July 1954 Anatole could move its head right and left, move its arms and responded to ten commands; and it weighed 140 kg and was 2m 10cm high. Le Haut-Parleur No. 956 Page 8 , 15 Juin …
Details from British Pathe film clip here: 1337.25 | GARAGE ROBOT (1:41:02:00 – 1:42:03:00) 14/09/1953 Stratford St Mary, Suffolk. At a petrol station we see garage owner Ivan Robinson setting up his own invention – 'Horace the Robot' – on the forecourt. Horace is connected to an electric cable which makes him salute passing vehicles. …
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Above image from Jim Linderman's website. Gettysburg Times 17 June 1949 The servant problem has been solved by a Detroit automobile factory worker, whose butler requires no wages or board. Robin, the strange creature of Patrick Rizzo, is more than an ashtray-emptying servant. He also entertains with card tricks and dances a jig. Five feet …
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Charles Lawson with his 2nd robot. Robot invented by Charles Lawson, a radio engineer of Kettering, England. Little is known of this Robot. Earliest known date of 1939 is from the above Popular Science advert on Webster's Dictionary. 7ft. tall, its claimed that this robot can control traffic, sing, light and smoke a cigarette and sit or …
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