a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
I have not been able to locate an image of Rowe's Steam Man, or should I say Steam Men as he made at least two of them. There is a possibility that Rowe's second Steam Man was re-incarnated as Prof. Moore's Steam Man in 1891. More on that in a later post. At one time I had articles included …
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Zadoc P. Dederick's Steam Man appears to be the first of the Steam Men. The Steam Man from Newark was so inspirational it generated many more Walking Machines, steam or otherwise, and also fictional stories, now seen as some of the earliest Science or Speculative Fiction (SF) written. US Patent number: 75874 Issue date: …
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The name "Kaiser" comes from the title of a video clip found at British Pathe here. Its actual name is not known at this time. WORKING MODEL OF THE KAISER Captain Alban J. Roberts – mobile, light-operated automaton 1920's (responsible for robots attributed to Jasper Maskelyne (music halls) and occasionally incorrectly attributed to Capt W. H. …
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This linkage was invented by the Russian mathematician Pafnuty Chebyshev (1821-1894) Model as seen in Russian Technology Museum – Moscow. See the above Chebyshev walker in my compilation video clip here. Wouter Scheublin's Chebyshev-based walking bookcase. see Wouter Scheublin's Chebyshev-based walking table here.
Wooden Ox / Gliding Horse Zhu-ge Liang 230 AD Chu-Ko Liang's "Wooden Oxen and Gliding Horse" ( notice different spelling to Zhu-ge Liang ) See book "Reconstruction designs of lost ancient Chinese machinery" By Hong-Sen Yan (search google books) Models: see http://140.116.71.92/acmlab/newpage15.htm Wang-Chien Type Wooden Oxen and Gliding Horse (below) Lin-Kuanli Type Wooden Oxen and …
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