John Stears – cyberneticzoo.com http://cyberneticzoo.com a history of cybernetic animals and early robots Sun, 28 Feb 2016 08:33:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 1975-6 – R2-D2 (from Star Wars) – John Stears (British) http://cyberneticzoo.com/early-mobile-robots/1975-6-r2-d2-from-star-wars-john-stears-british/ Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:08:12 +0000 http://cyberneticzoo.com/?p=5660 Not so well known is that there were two main types of R2-D2's in the original Star Wars space opera.  The models operated by Kenny Baker, the other a radio-controlled (R/C) model. Visually the main difference is the Kenny Baker model only ever had two legs, and the R/C version had three, although the single […]

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