Tin Can With An Idea - An imaginative Kansas teacher ( Bill Allen, Hamilton School in Wichita, Kan.) builds a robot to stir his students' interest in classroom science. Disappointed with his first-year performance as a general science teacher at Hamilton School in Wichita, Kan., Bill Allen figured that what…
Mr. Magnetron - At the National Radio Show held at Earls Court, London, England, Signalman Mellor, of Manchester, introduces a young man to the robot Mr. Magnetron. © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS Date Photographed: September 1, 1953 Mr Magnetron 24th March 1954: Lieutenant Corporal Pauline Bevan and Private Smith of the…
This page is a timeline showing early Mobile Robots, events, and dates being the creation or announcement of these robots. If image is clickable, then a blog post exists for it. Check out the updates page for the recent posts. Early Autonomous Mobile Robots 1953 - Beetle 1962 - "Creep…
This page contains a timeline showing early and significant Maze Solving machines. The dates being the creation or announcement date of these machines. IF IMAGE IS CLICKABLE, then a blog post exists for it. Check out the updates page for recent posts. 1933- Thomas Ross -Learning machine 1935- Smith / Ross - Rat 1937-…
"CYCLOPS" (CYbernetically Controlled Light Oriented and Powered System) , built by L. C. Galitz as a construction project for The Radio Constructor [later renamed to Radio & Electronics Constructor from Jan 1973 onwards]. Cyclops is one of the last construction projects for a fully featured cybernetic model subscribing to the conditioned…
XEE -pdf Practical Electronics June-July 1971 Practical Electronics June-July 1971 XEE HERE! An animal approximation utilising integrated circuits to process optical and tactile sensing together with a random control to give reasonable lifelike responses. By G. Brown There has been a considerable amount of correspondence relating to "electronic animals" following…
see full pdf here. Personal Computing FEBRUARY 1978 p56-61 BERT (excerpt) Building Your BASIC Robot Robots vary in sophistication and control structure, from Mars-walking space probes and industrial assembly robots to self-motivating household pets and computer-controlled "turtle" drawing robots. My interest in these simple mobile computer input-output devices, robots, led…
Meet MERV - Electronics Today (Australia) April 1971 MERV stands for Mobile Environmental Response Vehicle. Its creator, Peter Vogel, built it to demonstrate his theory on artificial intelligence IS it true that machines are incapable of intelligence, or can they in fact be endowed with reasoning power?' One answer —…
ROBUG: switch-programmable to wake/seek/avoid on light/touch/wind; feelers charged to 90 volts! "In high school [Montreal,1964] he [Hans Moravec] won two science fair prizes for a light-following electronic turtle and a tape-controlled robot hand. As an undergraduate he designed a computer to control fancier robots, and experimented with learning and automatic programming…