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The Metalogen Man & Babs (Carol Matthews), a robot from the 1945 serial, The Monster and the Ape (Columbia Pictures).
Created by Professor Franklin Arnold, the Metalogen Man is stolen by a thuggish competitor, Professor Ernst, with the aid of his trained ape, Thor. Ken Morgan, a representative of the company for whom the robot was made, leads the attempts to recover the stolen robot.
George The Robot - A ‘Home Help’ radio-controlled robot built by 17 year-old, Tony Sale, 1949. Sale would later become responsible for building the replica ‘Colossus’ WWII code-breaking computer from Bletchley Park. The top image is the negative/print circulated by Getty which masked out the brand of vacuum cleaner in the original. (bottom image via cyberneticzoo.com)
MOBOT Mark II, mobile robot concept from Hughes Aircraft, 1960 (image via Andrew Nicolet)
Egbert, The Mechanical Man - The official greeter at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, PA, 1934.
SPOKEN messages of welcome. accompanied by a snappy salute, startle visitors to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Pa., where a mechanical man nick-named "Egbert" has just been installed as official greeter. The robot comes to life when the visitor's shadow falls upon a light-sensitive "eye," operating electric relays that set him in action. A phonograph record supplies his voice. - Popular Science, June 1934 (via cybernetic zoo)
Journal Of Technology, January 1969 - Cover art of Russian science/tech magazine equivalent to Popular Science in the U.S.
The Ericsson Telephones Robot - Mexico City, 1930s. Photo by Agustin Victor Casasola (image via TRUE_ROBOTS)
Anatole the Robot (aka Marsulus) - created by Jean Dussailly. Illustration by Walter Molino for the Italian periodical, Domenica del Corriere, 1948.
17 year-old Tony Sale and his mum are photographed walking down an English village street with Sale’s remote controlled robot creation named George IV. George IV was quite a sensation in 1945. Sale would go on to have an illustrious career in electrical & computer engineering and computer programming.
I am Robert Robot, Mechanical Man. Ride me and steer me where ever you can, I am Robert Robot, Mechanical Man. - Inspired by the sci-fi classic Tobor the Great, Ideal Toys’ Robert Robot took the U.S. by storm beginning in 1954. The remote-controlled mechanical man bowled enthusiasts over by its breakthrough technology - featuring speech, advanced movements, ‘x-ray’ eyes, and an opening chest panel containing a handy set of tools. (image via STUTTGARTER ZEITUNG)
But typists are not robots - Royal Typewriter Co. introducing the new Touch Control feature which allowed the typist to personalize the key tension to her exact finger pressure. (1935) The robot featured in the advert was variously known as Mary Ann, The Roboter, Alpha, and Astra depending upon her modelling assignment.
CAPTAIN VIDEO, MASTER OF THE STRATOSPHERE (1951)
Robot Brand - Vintage matchbox label, Japan
Stainless Administrator - The mechanical robot designed and built by the ingenious Soviet acrobat, athlete, illusionist Anatoly Sokol, father of Oleg Sokol (pictured), USSR 1966.
Mechanical Worker, 31 December 1970 - Moscow: This robot conductor...was made by children of the Oblast Station of Young Technicians in Kalingrad (Moscow Oblast). According to the Soviets...the robot has worked with the city's transportaion system, greeting passengers and asking them to buy tickets, and switching on his own lights if the lights in the car go out.
Astroman - Remote controlled robot manufactured by DUX, Germany 1962
A human friend adjusts Louie The Robot - Hamburg, Germany, 1952
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