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Posted on February 23rd, 2009
Andrey Mikhalchuk
Elektro is the nickname of a robot built by the Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric Corporation in its Mansfield, Ohio facility between 1937 and 1938. He also appeared as “Thinko”, in a 1960 film, Sex Kittens Go to College.
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Posted on February 23rd, 2009
Andrey Mikhalchuk
BIG TRAK / bigtrak was the programmable electric vehicle created by Milton Bradley in 1979. It was a six-wheeled tank with a front-mounted blue photon beam headlamp, and a keypad on top.
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Posted on February 23rd, 2009
Andrey Mikhalchuk
ASIMO is a humanoid robot created at Honda’s Research & Development Wako Fundamental Technical Research Center in Japan.
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Posted on February 23rd, 2009
Andrey Mikhalchuk
Al-Jazari’s work described fountains and musical automata, in which the flow of water alternated from one large tank to another at hourly or half-hourly intervals. This operation was achieved through his innovative use of hydraulic switching.
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Posted on February 22nd, 2009
Andrey Mikhalchuk
France successfully tested its first military UAV called SIDM (Système Intérimaire de Drone MALE) in Afghanistan – military’s favorite playground these days. This highly autonomous all-weather surveillance UAV is based on IAI Eagle-1 platform and can stay in the air for up to 24(!) hours at the altitudes 5-8km and recon in 1000km range.
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