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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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ASIMO
Posted on February 23rd, 2009 No commentsASIMO is a humanoid robot created at Honda’s Research & Development Wako Fundamental Technical Research Center in Japan.
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Al-Jazari Robots
Posted on February 23rd, 2009 No commentsAl-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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