a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
Christopher Noessel from scifiinterfaces.wordpress.com has already done such a great job in describing the robot vacuum cleaner from the 1997 movie "The Fifth Element" that I have re-blogged his post here: Floor sweeping robots – 22 Apr 2013 by Christopher Noessel To illustrate his capitalist ideology, (a high-tech version of the parable of …
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Douglas Trumbull with Drone #02, "Huey", in his personal collection at the time. [Starlog] Doug Trumbull talking to the actors inside the Drone suits. Poor quality picture of Doug Turnbull with "Huey" in his office. [Source: The Victoria Advocate, 4 Aug 1977] Early Concept Drawings Drone Concept drawings. The credited people behing the Drones are …
Archigram Group's futuristic-type room at Tomorrow's Home Exhibition called 'Living 1990' held at Harrods, 1967. Robot Fred is on the left. IDEAL HOMES Your browser does not support iframes. Possible layouts involving Robot Fred and Robot James. Robot Fred has a smaller footprint than Robot James. LIVING 1990 The Archigram Group was commissioned in 1967 by …
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