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1962 – “FLEXIMAN” – Anthony Kaye (American)

Mary Locke getting what robots like to give. Patent Information: MECHANISM FOR REMOTE MANIPULATION OF INDUSTRIAL OBJECTS Anthony J. Kaye et al See full patent details here.  Patent number: 3173555 Filing date: Sep 7, 1962 Issue date: Mar 16, 1965 This invention relates generally to mechanism for positioning or otherwise…
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1956 – “PLANOBOT” Pick-and-Place Industrial Robot – Joe B. Brown (Planet Corp.)

  Source: Popular Mechanics,  Dec 1957. Although I've seen dates suggesting the Planobot was around since 1955, The first dates I've seen in publications start in 1956.  The patent itself was filed 13 Mar 1957. "Planobot is for automationeers. It's a transfer device (Planet Corp., 1820 Sunset St., Lansing, Mich.)…
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2011 – “Mystic Mec” Meccano Automaton – Chris Shute (British)

Above Photo by Chris Shute A Meccano machine to read your palm. Built in 5 months from mostly modern Meccano parts and 13 salvaged motors. All 24 electrical switches and the 32 - step Sequencer are made from Meccano. Mystic Mec will choose an almost 'random' letter to hint at…
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1937 – The Robot Gargantua – “Bill” Griffith P. Taylor – (Australian/Canadian)

The Robot Garguantua. gar·gan·tu·a -n. A person of great size or stature and of voracious physical or intellectual appetites. [After the giant hero of Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais.] Like most, including myself, the true significance is lost in the title ("An Automatic Block-Setting Crane") and opening description of the…
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1957 – Remote-Controlled Painting Machine – Akira Kanayama (Japanese)

Akira Kanayama’s painting machine from 1957 was a four-wheeled device that Kanayama could remote-control to create paintings approximately 180 by 280 cm. The canvas lay on the floor and the machine dripped and poured paint on the picture pane. The painting machine is an early example of the machine/robot in…
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1971 – “COSME” – Le Chevalier de L’Espace – Jeanne Renucci-Convers (French)

Cosme, le chevalier de lumière... est le dernier né et le géant des automates.            Nous voilà bien loin des premières poupées articulées. Cosme n'est pas seulement colossal (5 m. de haut, 1.350 kg), il a de l'ambition et veut synthétiser en lui l'humanité présente et future dans le contexte technique…
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1929 – “M. M.” the Mechanische Mensch (Mechanical Man) – P. Geerlviet Jr. (Dutch)

Source: Panorama, 17 September 1929 DE OPENING VAN DE 4e INTERNATIONALE RADIO-TENTOONSTELLING TE AMSTERDAM vond Dinsdag j.l. plaats. De heer P. Geervliet exposeert er zijn mechanischen mensch, die op alle vragen antwoord geeft. THE OPENING OF THE 4th INTERNATIONAL RADIO EXHIBITION AMSTERDAM found Tuesday jl place. Mr P. Geervliet exhibits there…
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1933 – Cocktail Robot – (American)

13 Nov 1933, New York, New York, USA --- The law says "there ain't goin' to be no bar maids" the ubiquitous feminine cocktail shaker persists in appearing on the scene and here, essaying the role, is Miss Ruth Young, where she is demonstrating a helpful device for the cocktail…

1935 – Lifelike Robot – Milton Tenenbaum (American)

Source: Popular Science, October 1935 LIFELIKE ROBOT SPEAKS, SMOKES. AND DRINKS The robot and a companion go fishing. So realistic in appearance is this mechanical man that it is hard to pick out at a casual glance.  After closer inspection, you may distinguish him as the figure sitting on the…
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More Meccano Walking Machines & Robots

Meccano model of GE's Walking Truck designed by Hugh Henry. All legs are completely rotatable in the same direction. For a complete set of images see the NZ Meccano web site here.  Thanks Antonio Gual for encouraging  Tony Brown (the author of the Modelplan) who found some pictures of Hugh…
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