Tag: Zirou Aizawa

Mr. Sparks with his four brothers before Goro was born. An earlier picture of Mr. Spark with his brothers. Mr. Spark (2nd from left) with his brothers in the Nagoya Robot Museum. The Robot Museum closed 31 September, 2007. Mr Spark awaiting a full restoration at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology in Japan.   See the …

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Jiro Aizawa, born 1903, is very significant in terms of Japan's history of robots, toy robots in particular.  (also Dr. Aizawa, Uncle Robot, Dr. Robot, Zirou Aizawa, Dr. Aizawa Zirou, and 二郎相澤 in Japanese.) In 1910*1, when in 5th grade, Aizawa saw his first mechanical man in a London exhibition [RH Note that the word robot was not …

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