1932 – Mr. Robot – William Hutter (American)
The Canberra Times < Saturday 23 July 1932 p5 ROBOT AS SUPER-SALESMAN Robot, the super orator and salesman, who never stutters or forgets, and whose tongue never makes a disastrous slip, is the new mechanical talking man invented by Mr. William Hutter, chief engineer of the wireless company of Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States. He …