Kawasaki Heavy Industries – 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 1964 – Aquacopter – General Motors (American) http://cyberneticzoo.com/underwater-robotics/1964-aquacopter-general-motors-american/ Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:55:59 +0000 http://cyberneticzoo.com/?p=11688   AN AQUACOPTER, a two-man undersea personnel carrier fitted with claw-handed arms and capable of operating on the ocean floor, is one of the futuristic vehicles featured in the undersea set of the General Motors Futurama ride at the New York World's Fair. In an aquacopter geologists, according to GM designers, would be able to […]

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]]> 1964 – Yomiuri Submersible – Yomiuri Shimbu / Kawasaki (Japanese) http://cyberneticzoo.com/underwater-robotics/1964-yomiuri-submersible-yomiuri-shimbu-kawasaki-japanese/ Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:54:53 +0000 http://cyberneticzoo.com/?p=11682 1964 – Yomiuri Submersible by Yomiuri Shimbu Newspaper and Kawasaki Heavy Industries.   Image source: Manned Submersibles, Frank Bushby, 1976. The manipulator has six degrees of freedom. See other early Underwater Robots here.

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