Claude A. Shannon – 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 1952 – “Theseus” Maze-Solving Mouse – Claude Shannon (American) http://cyberneticzoo.com/mazesolvers/1952-%e2%80%93-theseus-maze-solving-mouse-%e2%80%93-claude-shannon-american/ http://cyberneticzoo.com/mazesolvers/1952-%e2%80%93-theseus-maze-solving-mouse-%e2%80%93-claude-shannon-american/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:00:59 +0000 http://cyberneticzoo.com/?p=2552 Internals showing N-S, E-W carriage, Relays, Uni-selector, motors, amongst other electrical components.  See 18 mins 51 secs in for 27 seconds. See 9 mins 16 secs in for 32 seconds. As the 1952 maze solver was recently at the MIT Museum. Picture from Life Magazine 28 July 1952. Top trace is showing the first pass […]

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]]> http://cyberneticzoo.com/mazesolvers/1952-%e2%80%93-theseus-maze-solving-mouse-%e2%80%93-claude-shannon-american/feed/ 5 1950 – Maze-Solving Mouse – Claude Shannon (American) http://cyberneticzoo.com/mazesolvers/1951-maze-solving-mouse-claude-shannon-american/ Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:52:25 +0000 http://cyberneticzoo.com/?p=1358 The diagrammatic view of the 1950-1 Maze-solving Mouse built by Claude A. Shannon. Claude Shannon knew Edmund C. Berkeley quite well. Berkeley had two young associates working part-time with him on his early robots, by the names of Ivan and Bert Sutherland.  Ivan was soon to have Claude Shannon as his Thesis supervisor.  Berkeley was keen […]

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