No idea what this means, but it meant enough to me to post it.
[Found here, with, um, a vid, and “Turquerie” has a Wiki description.]
Tinius the Cybernetic Turtle c1950 – An engineering student takes a robot through its paces, 1950. [RH-2013- Although looking like a turtle (tortoise) which suggests being a Grey Walter-inspired machines, With it two “eyes” appearing as though it is fixed to the steering, suggests more that it is just phototropic i.e. it is attracted to and will follow a light source as per Norbert Wiener’s Moth.]
[Found here.]
Just because you haven’t seen them doesn’t mean they don’t exist. That one was spotted here.