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1961 – Moonwalker Lunar Rover – Space General Corp. (American)

Space General designers have built an insect-like vehicle with six legs, two arms, a triangular body, a solar-cell panel, and an antenna. The left arm, ending in a claw, picks up objects to examine. The right one holds a TV camera to do the looking - and to see where…
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1956 – GE Yes-Man Teleoperator – Ralph Mosher (American)

Life Magazine 28 May 1956 p 125. The disembodied device graciously helping the girl with her coat (above) is one of the most dexterous robots yet designed. Its arms have elbows that bend, wrists that swivel and three-clawed hands. Still being perfected by G.E., it is an electro-mechanical slave called…
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1940 – Walking SuperTank – Hutchinson and Smith (British)

This demonstration model was remotely controlled by means of flexible cables: the operator used one limb to control each leg.  The British firm W. H. Allen & Company, with A. C. Hutchinson and F. S. Smith, designed the first military related walking machine in 1940. The proposed armoured fighting machine…
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1957-60 – Walking Machine(s) – Joseph Shigley (American)

There are at least two variations of the walking machines attributed to Prof. Joseph E. Shigley, then from the University of Michigan.  The first relates to the pantograph leg with some descriptions suggesting up to 16 legs were to be used - 4 gangs of 4 legs so a leg was…
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1965-71 – G.E. Hardiman I Exoskeleton – Ralph Mosher (American)

One of the few photographs we see of Hardiman I.  I'd have a smile like that on my face too if I had one of these. Hardiman is a name derived somehow, from "Human Augmentation Research and Development Investigation." and Man from MANipulator.  Sometimes written as HardiMan, Hardi-Man, Hardi Man,…
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