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1959 – “DUHAB” – Lawrence Lipton / Bill Riola (American)

cyberne1 — Fri, 25 Dec 2015 10:41:16 +0000

1959 – "DUHAB" (Detector of Undesirable HABitués) by Lawrence Lipton / Bill Riola. Photograph caption dated December 5, 1960 reads, "Electronic Cat Detects Subversives for Beatniks. Duhab accompanies poet-author Lawrence Lipton to weed out undesirables." Image source: The Los Angeles Public Library. Lawrence Lipton was talking to the Valley College Writer's Club. Source: The beatnik […]

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1959 – SP-350 Denise Diving Saucer – Jacques-Yves Cousteau et al (French)

cyberne1 — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 12:57:38 +0000

The SP-350 Denise, famous as the "Diving saucer" (Soucoupe plongeante), is a small submarine designed to hold two people, and is capable of exploring depths of up to 400 metres (1,300 ft). It was invented by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and engineer Jean Mollard at the French Centre for Undersea Research. It was built in the […]

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1959 – Lunar Construction Vehicle from Project HORIZON – U.S. Army (American)

cyberne1 — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 11:41:42 +0000

Lunar Construction Vehicle with manipulator arms. Above image from “The Next 50 Years on the Moon”, 1974. NASA Study Summary: “Project Horizon, Vol 2, Technical Considerations and Plans” Here’s a big study from 1959, done by the US Army, right about the time NASA was just becoming a going concern. There was a lot of […]

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1959-61 – Concept O-9 Manned Utility Tug – (American)

cyberne1 — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 13:16:22 +0000

Concept O-9: Rendezvous by Manned Utility Tug From a report compiled between 1959-61 and presented in 1961 are various concepts {Suffixed by 'O' for Orbital Rendezvous). This extract only selects those concepts that have a manipulator component. WADD TECHNICAL REPORT 60-857 LAUNCHING AND ALIGHTMENT SYSTEMS FOR AERO-SPACE VEHICLES Nelson T. Levings, Jr. Cleveland Pneumatic Industries, […]

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1962 – Unmanned Space Mobot (Concept) – Hughes Aircraft (American)

cyberne1 — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 14:43:01 +0000

Hughes Space Mobot concept. John W. Clark, Ph.D. NUCLEAR ELECTRONICS LABORATORY HUGHES AIRCRAFT COMPANY CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA ROLE OF REMOTE HANDLING IN SPACE [c1962] Orbiting Vehicles In connection with orbiting vehicles, remote-handling techniques can advantageously be employed in connection with maintenance and repair, assembly in orbit, and personnel transfer. Maintenance and repair is, of cause, […]

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1959 – Lunar Robot Mobot (Concept) – Hughes Aircraft (American)

cyberne1 — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 14:14:27 +0000

MACHINE TO EXPLORE MOON FIRST EXPLORER of the moon may be a machine. Roaming the crust, it would collect samples of rocks and dust with mechanical fingers, under remote control of spacemen remaining safely within a landed rocket ship. Hughes Aircraft company designers say it could be patterned closely after their Mobot, a mobile mechanical […]

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1959 – Webb Radio-controlled Electric Lawnmower – Vic Rigby (British)

cyberne1 — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 02:36:30 +0000

ROBOT GARDENING Selected Originals – ROYALTY SEE FLOWER SHOW 1583.19 | Selected Originals – ROYALTY SEE FLOWER SHOW (1:41:04:00 – 1:45:47:00) 28/05/1959 Robot lawn mower Selected originals (offcuts, selected scenes, out-takes, rushes) for story "Royalty See Flower Show" 59/43. Various shots Queen Elizabeth II, Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Philip) and Princess Margaret. Various shots Princess […]

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1959 – Cybernetic Mice play Hockey – Mullard (British)

cyberne1 — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 13:38:11 +0000

An early example of multiple robotic creatures operating together. Other than light and touch sensors, there's no other apparent interaction with them. Possibly an early but simple example of swarm robotics and collaborative robots. English translation of article text: To emphasize wont in machine control, a British firm [Mullard] of electronic devices has created these mechanical […]

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1959 – Lawn Mower (Concept) – Arthur Radebaugh (American)

cyberne1 — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:35:16 +0000

Arthur Radebaugh was a futurist illustrator, airbrush artist, and industrial designer. He produced a significant body of work for automotive industry advertisements. He was noted for his artistic experimentation with fluorescent paint under black light, an interest that stemmed from his design work for the U.S. Army. From 1958 to 1962 he produced the syndicated […]

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1959 – Sverdlovsk Cybernetic Tortoise – (Soviet)

cyberne1 — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 06:18:17 +0000

English text translated from the original German: (for pictures and diagrams, see pdf below) The Cybernetic Model "Tortoise" Cybernetics – In recent years, a new science was born. It enables machines to replace with highly skilled human labor, eg by electronic calculators. These machines are very complicated in structure, and only specialists with high qualifications […]

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