1978 – “Tee Toddler” Light-seeking Robot – Allen & Rossetti (American)
See article pdf here. Source: Byte August 1978
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1978 – An Inexpensive Turtle – Michael Folk (American)
REPORT : An Inexpensive Turtle BUILDING AN INEXPENSIVE TURTLE by Michael Folk Mathematics Department Drake University Des Moines, IA 50311 Two years ago two colleagues and I set about developing a microcomputer controlled programmable robot for teaching1 . The goals of our project were (1) to build a lowcost (less…
1978 – Queen Mary College Mark IV Mobile Robot – Mark Witkowski & Dave Mott (British)
The QMW Mk. IV Mobile Research Robot The final version (Mk. 4) of our first attempts at a mobile robot for machine learning research. It had a somewhat unusual (and not entirely satisfactory) drive layout with wheels at the front of the vehicle. D.C. motor drive was complemented with gray-code…
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Tee Toddler – Byte Magazine Aug 1978
Tee Toddler - Byte Magazine Aug 1978
1950 – “Nellie” the Mechanical Elephant – Frank Stuart (British)
Nellie at Sandy Bay Museum. Photo courtesy Larry Gavette. Nellie's control panel. Photo courtesy Larry Gavette. Caption: Perhaps the earliest model built still in existance, this elephant was in the Sandy Bay Country Museum in Exmouth when this video was taken in 1980 or so. This model is the one…
1959 – Nico, St. Nikolaus and SamiKlause – Peter Steuer (Swiss)
SABOR with younger "brother" Nico (left) in Chicago. A video clip of SABOR's younger brother and sister can be found on the Archivio Storico Istituto Luce site here. The site is in Italian. Check box "archivio cinematografico" and search on "Notizie brevi da Gossau". Girl reading brochure on SABOR as handed out…
1903 – “The Wonderful Electric Elephant” – Frances T. Montgomery (American)
The Wonderful Electric Elephant Written in 1903 by Frances T. Montgomery, The Wonderful Electric Elephant is children's story in which Harold and Ione take a trip around the world in a life-sized mechanical elephant. The tale describes their magnificent adventure and journey. Interestingly for this site though, the book was…
1945c – Voltaire – William Jean Arrendorff – (British)
I have very little information on Voltaire and his "robot". The information below is from the link now dead www.magician.org.uk/hmc/archive-2-2005-01.html 9.2 In Town Tonight - Voltaire posted 29/01/05 by Richard Morrell in Oracle Articles [No comments] Many magicians know the wonderful act of Mr. Electric – Marvyn Roy. The subject…
1986 – Power Loader from “Aliens” the Movie
The popularisation of "Man-Amplifiers" was largely due to the movie "Aliens" directed by James Cameron and released in 1986. Earlier scenes introduce it as it is, a power loader for heavy materials. Ripley later uses it as an equaliser for a "mano e mano" with the queen alien. Earlier concept by…