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KITT
Posted on February 23rd, 2009 No commentsKITT is the short name of a fictional character on the adventure TV series Knight Rider. KITT is an artificial intelligence electronic computer installed in a highly advanced, very mobile, robot in the form of a 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am.
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Electro/Thinko
Posted on February 23rd, 2009 No commentsElektro 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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Big Trak
Posted on February 23rd, 2009 No commentsBIG 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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Pleo
Posted on February 22nd, 2009 No commentsPleo is an animatronic dinosaur toy designed to emulate the appearance and (imagined) behavior of a week-old baby Camarasaurus. It was designed by Caleb Chung, the co-creator of the Furby, and is manufactured by Ugobe.
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Roomba
Posted on February 22nd, 2009 No commentsThe Roomba is a robotic vacuum cleaner made and sold by iRobot. The Roomba was introduced in 2002; several updates and new models have since been released. As of January 2008[update], over 2.5 million units have been sold.
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