1966 – Cybernetic Explorer (Russian)

Cybernetic model from the Russian hobby magazine M-K, June 1966. pdf of article – no English translation as yet. If anyone can offer more information on this model, they can contact me on reubenh at cyberneticzoo dot com . Unfortunately this blog software cannot support the Russian language set as well as others that I …

1965 – Cybernetic Tortoise – (Russian)

Простая кибернетика Автор:Е. Копытов, Ð’. Салов, Т. Шорикова Название:Простая кибернетика Издательство:Молодая гвардия Год:1965 ———————- Simple cybernetics Author: E. Kopytov, V. Salov, T. Shorikova Title: A simple cybernetics Publisher: Young Guard Year: 1965 Thanks to Waldemar DekaÅ„ski  from Poland for locating the source for this Cybernetic Tortoise. Original Russian text originally used found here.   Pioneer in the …

1962 – Big Cyber Tortoise – (Russian)

Translation:  "The Big Cyber Tortoise – a mobile adaptive automat. Made in 60-s by the experimental factory of the former ZNANIE (http://www.znanie.org/OZR/history.htm ) It has technical vision and sounds recognition and able to find a light source and avoid obstacles".   This tortoise is in the Polytechnical Museum in Moscow (http://eng.polymus.ru/)   Turtle has hearing and eyesight, …

1957 – Cybernetic Tortoise “Beta” – Vasilyev and Petrovsky (Russian)

    The Cybernetic section of the the Moscow Politechnical museum. You can see "Beta" in the centre. It is quite small in size. The other clear-plastic model was built for the museum and is the subject of another later post.      There is a single drive motor, only driving the left-hand side wheel. The …