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There's more here on Westinghouse's robots – https://youtube.com/watch?v=YV_JmTS8EsY https://youtube.com/watch?v=YV_JmTS8EsY – including footage of Elektro, a r

There's more here on Westinghouse's robots – https://youtube.com/watch?v=YV_JmTS8EsY https://youtube.com/watch?v=YV_JmTS8EsY – including footage of Elektro, a robot that... smoked cigarettes!

krapp 4y ago
According to Wikipedia[0] it also featured as Thinko the robot in the 1960 movie "Sex Kittens go to College[1,2]" Also this is an excuse to repost the Old Robots website which has an Elektro page[3]. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektro [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Kittens_Go_to_College https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Kittens_Go_to_College [2]https://youtu.be/KLV6KBXZ5_M?t=4963 https://youtu.be/KLV6KBXZ5_M?t=4963 (nsfw, if the title weren't enough of a giveaway, but I mean is your job really worth not seeing Mamie Van Doren do a striptease for a robot and his wacky monkey friend?) [3]https://www.theoldrobots.com/Electro.html https://www.theoldrobots.com/Electro.html We can hide in this thread from all of the economics majors on HN.
- recuter 4y ago
  Best HN comment of the week, thanks for being awesome :)
- krapp 4y ago
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There's more here on Westinghouse's robots – https://youtube.com/watch?v=YV_JmTS8EsY https://youtube.com/watch?v=YV_JmTS8EsY – including footage of Elektro, a robot that... smoked cigarettes!

krapp 4y ago

According to Wikipedia[0] it also featured as Thinko the robot in the 1960 movie "Sex Kittens go to College[1,2]" Also this is an excuse to repost the Old Robots website which has an Elektro page[3]. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektro [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Kittens_Go_to_College https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Kittens_Go_to_College [2]https://youtu.be/KLV6KBXZ5_M?t=4963 https://youtu.be/KLV6KBXZ5_M?t=4963 (nsfw, if the title weren't enough of a giveaway, but I mean is your job really worth not seeing Mamie Van Doren do a striptease for a robot and his wacky monkey friend?) [3]https://www.theoldrobots.com/Electro.html https://www.theoldrobots.com/Electro.html We can hide in this thread from all of the economics majors on HN.

recuter 4y ago
Best HN comment of the week, thanks for being awesome :)
krapp 4y ago
More interesting old robots from the future I wish I lived in instead... Arok https://www.theoldrobots.com/arok.html https://www.theoldrobots.com/arok.html https://www.flyingcarsandfoodpills.com/arok-the-robot https://www.flyingcarsandfoodpills.com/arok-the-robot Roll-Oh (which I think was just a dude in a costume but still deliciously goofy-looking) https://www.theoldrobots.com/Roll-oh-robot.html https://www.theoldrobots.com/Roll-oh-robot.html ODEX-1 https://www.theoldrobots.com/odex.html https://www.theoldrobots.com/odex.html https://cyberneticzoo.com/walking-machines/1983-odex-1-functionoid-walking-robot-american/ https://cyberneticzoo.com/walking-machines/1983-odex-1-funct... https://dailytitan.com/lifestyle/defunct-aging-robot-odex-1-awaits-fate-in-csuf-mechanical-engineering-lab/article_aed15cb7-b1b5-5ec9-a261-6ca3ec18708b.html https://dailytitan.com/lifestyle/defunct-aging-robot-odex-1-... Gygan https://www.theoldrobots.com/Gygan.html https://www.theoldrobots.com/Gygan.html http://davidbuckley.net/DB/HistoryMakers/Gygan.htm http://davidbuckley.net/DB/HistoryMakers/Gygan.htm ASV Walker https://www.theoldrobots.com/OSU-ASV_Walker.html https://www.theoldrobots.com/OSU-ASV_Walker.html https://www.thedrive.com/news/36157/the-us-army-spent-millions-developing-giant-six-legged-walking-trucks-in-the-1980s https://www.thedrive.com/news/36157/the-us-army-spent-millio...