Not so well known is that there were two main types of R2-D2's in the original Star Wars space opera. The models operated by Kenny Baker, the other a radio-controlled (R/C) model. Visually the main difference is the Kenny Baker model only ever had two legs, and the R/C version…
Star Wars - Interface Age - April 1978
Star Wars - Electronics Today International - Dec 1977
Dalek model - RCME Jan 1966
Built in 1985 Robot George, it's 25 years old Dan Mathias first big robot and 40 inches tall, and weights 110 lbs, has one Pentium III - 600 MHz Lap-Top, with 128 meg ram and 20 Gig ide hard drive, sound blaster voice input, voice syntheses and image processing and…
An early, if not the first plans for a radio-controlled model of a Dalek by C. Rowlands as published in Radio Control models and Electronics Jan 1966 (really for Chrismas, Dec 1965). see pdf here
Built by L. Hilderbrand, a German Radio-control enthusiast. Published in Radio Control Models & Electronics, May 1965. See pdf
See pdf here VIDEO CLIP You will need to register (free) and login to http://www.movietone.com/ , then search for the following: Film Title: A LIVIN' DOLL Card Title: THE LIVIN DOLL Location: London, England Date: 25/07/1960 Length: 51 secs Story Number: 80678 Description: This is "Rainbow", the radio-controlled doll,…
You can see a sliding door rail and rollers providing the horizontal guidance. from a comment made on the Scienceworks site re Robbie 19/10/2009 09:03 PM Daniel Bernard Smith was my uncle and when we used to visit his house he would often fire up Robbie and make…
Rainbow - R/C model - RCME Dec 1961