Cybernetic Creature Timeline

This page contains a timeline showing significant Cybernetic animals and events, the dates being the creation or announcement of the cybernetic models. If IMAGE IS CLICKABLE, then a post exists for it. Check out the updates page for recent posts.

PRE-CYBERNETIC ERA

1911- Toy Beetle
1912- Miessner / Hammond – Electric Dog "Seleno"  + Addendum 
1916- Steinbrook – Wireless Dog
1920- Lux  – Protozoon
1921- French Dog – Berger Toy     
1923 – The Electric Dog – Hugo Gernsback
1928- Henri Piraux – "Philidog"             
1934- Dussaud – Endomechanics              
1939- Tolman – Sowbug Schematic
 
CYBERNETIC ERA
      
1948-49 Grey Walter – "ELMER" & "ELSIE"
1949- Wiener Wiesner Singleton – "Palomilla" Moth
1950- Grey Walter – "CORA"
1950 – Tinius the Cybernetic Turtle – Rice University
1950 "Cybercar" Toy            
1951 – Edmund C. Berkeley  – "Squee"              
1951-2 Paul-Alain Amouriq – Cybernetique Tortue (Tortoise)
1951 – TOAD Artificial Nuron Line Follower – Householder     
1952-54 Albert Ducrocq – Miso, Job, Cesare, Barbara, Renard-et-al  
1952?- MIT- unknown robot   
1953 – Kubanoff  – "Tim Turtle"   
1954 – Eichler / Zemanek – Vienna Turtle 
1955 – Cross – Phototropic Snail               
1956 – "CYSP-1" – Nicolas Schöffer
1956 – Bert and Ivan Sutherland – "Beast" 
1957- Ivan Sutherland – "Machina Versatilis" 
1956-57- Daniel Muszka – "Szeged Katica" (Hungarian)
c1950s French – Dan Dennett's "Tati" 
1957 – Vasiliev / Petrovsky (Russian) – "Beta"
1958- Angyan – "Machina Reproducatrix" 
1958- A.H. Bruinsma – "Cyber the Dog"       
1958- Welker – "Sparky"               
1958- Uttley / Andrew Conditional Probability Computer with trolley  
1958- Electrotechnical Institute in Kiev – "Tortilla"     
1958-60-62 Wojciechowski – "Azor" and "Super Azor" Dog
1959 – Sverdlovsk Cybernetic Tortoise
1959 – Cybernetic Mice play Hockey
1959-60 – Andrzej Harland – Artificial Turtle "CUPEL"
1960- Kretz / Angyan / Zemanek – "Machina Combinatrix"               
1960s – Russian Cybernetic Tortoise – Unknown builder        
1960- Stanford Cart 
1961 – APL-JHU  "Ferdinand"  Mod I       
1962-3-  APL-JHU Hopkins "Beast" Mod II pre-vision
1962-5- APL-JHU Hopkins "Beast" Mod II with extended sonar & vision  
1962-6- "STeLLA" – John Andreae & Peter L. Joyce
1962?- "Tortilla-2" Ukrainian     
1962- "Icarus" – Orr
1962- Otto Walter Haseloff – "Hinz & Kunz"
1963- Cautela & Mikaelian – Conditioned Cybernetic Machine 
1963c- Fred Chesson – Cybernetic Dog            
1964- R. Oettel – "Omega" 
1964 – Armand Delsemme – Cybernetique Tortue
1964- Hans Moravec – "ROBUG"      
1964- "Fred" – John Holland 
1965- Hans Bielowski / Zemanek- Schildkröte  
1965 – "ADROIT" – Leonard Friedman
1967 – Bruce Lacey – "Mate"
1968- "Toy-Pet  Plexi-Ball" – Parkinson & Martin
1968 – Russian Cybernetic Bee
1968c – Johan de Boer Cybernetic Mouse
1969- "Astor" – Aston University        
1980-82- ROBART-I  Bart Everett     
1980- SUPERKIM Meets ET-2               
1982- SRI "Flakey"  
 
 
Unknowns
Vodovnik
 
Other Models to include:                 
1956- Albrecht Hauenschild : Der Homeostat
1929- Stevens              
1933- Bennett – Ward         
1956- Cecetto – Adamo II      
1960- Huggins – Dog          
1964- Cybernetic Cats            
196x- Brooks – Norman      
1974- Russian Cybernetic Dog "Barbos"              
19xx- Romanian Dog – Nicolescu       
2001- Poptronics Elsie Replica 
Ashby – Homeostat           
Bent Russell               
C. J. Knight                  
Elektronik Bastelbook      
Russian-Unknown        

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