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1969-70 – SEEK – Nicholas Negroponte (American)

"Seek", 1970 by Nicholas Negroponte with the Architecture Machine Group , M.I.T. Originally shown at the "Software" exhibition, curated by Jack Burnham for the Jewish Museum in New York 1970. This piece consisted of a Plexiglass encased, computer-controlled  environment full of small blocks and inhabited by gerbils, who continuously changed the position…
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1965-70 – Mobile Sculptures – Robert Breer (American)

zig - 1965 - styrofoam, motors. Above: Float. 1967. Osaka-1, Expo '70       Robert Breer Born in Detroit, 1926. 1949, after graduation from Stanford University (where he won the annual printing award), moved to Paris. Exhibited in group shows there at the Denise René Gallery from 1950 to…
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1971 – PrOP-M Mars Mini Rover (Soviet)

PrOP-M is now at the museum in St.Petersburg. PrOP-M (Device Evaluation Terrain - Mars) [Note: the acronym only works in Russian] ПрОП-Ðœ (Прибор Оценки Проходимости - Марс) Mass………………………………………………4 kg Overall dimensions…………………………215x160x60 mm Travel speed……………………………………1 m/h Power consumption………………………………5 W Customer: Lavochkin Association. (First translated article) Two automated rovers reached Mars in 1971…

1979 – 6-legged Walking Machine – Efimov et al (Soviet)

Above stills from the video clip. The mechanical model was developed at the Institute VNIITRANSMASH (St. Petersburg). The parameters of the machine are the follows: body length 0,6 m and body width 0,25 m, weight 40 kg, length of leg 0,4 m (Efimov et al., 1982). Efimov, V., Kudriasev, M. & Titov, A.(1982).…
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1985 – “NMIIIA” Hexapod Manned Rover – (Russian)

See a few seconds of "NMIIIA" in operation in the above Walking Machine compilation video.   As it exists today in Volga city of Togliatti is widely known as the birthplace of "Lada" and "LAD". But there is another interesting attraction, which we know not all - the Technical Museum…
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1977 – IPM Six-Legged Walker with Laser Scanning – Okhotsimski et al (Soviet)

The insect-like walkers were referred to as "cockroaches". In the early 70s, at the Institute of Applied mathematics (IPM) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, a six-legged walking machine controlled on a base of a mathematical model of motion control was developed. The machine motion and the terrain…
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