[Found here, here, here and here. Top one is a burlesque “robot” from the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Bottom two is are clips from the 1965 Bollywood movie Gumnaam.]
Tag: robot
Lost but not forgotten…
[Found here.]
Valentines Day: Songs of The Love Bot
Robot Archie
Robot Archie had “ARCHIE” emblazoned on his chest plate to make him easier to identify.
[Artwork by Ted Kearon found here. Click for uncropped images.]
1965 NASA PDAD Robot
The ‘Power Driven Articulated Dummy’ project was under Contract No. NAS 9-1370 and ran from May 22, 1963 through July 31, 1965. It was originally built for Nasa’s Manned Spacecraft Center by the Illinois Institute of Technology.
The reason for a test dummy was officials hoped to use it during design and testing of a spacesuits, which might otherwise be painful, tedious or even dangerous for human beings.
The 1965 robot was able to simulate 35 basic human motions and used sensors to gather data on how the human body acted in a pressurized suit – but it never made it off the ground due to its tendency to leak oil.
Only two of these robots were created, the one selling for $80,000 and another that is owned by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
Platybot
The .Gif Friday Post No. 738 – The Bouncer, A Kind Gesture & Makin’ the ‘Loaf
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Kephalonomancing Hot Links
Slummin‘, Don and Dewey (1959)Don “Sugarcane” Harris (aka Don Bowman) and Dewey Terry never had any hits of their own but others did with covers of their songs. Sugarcane Harris had particular success playing electric violin as a sideman for Little Richard, Johnny Otis, John Mayall & Frank Zappa, and in the 1980s was a member of the punk/jazz/psychobilly group Tupelo Chain Sex.
Greta taught us everything.
New Hampshire volcanoes and stonewalling [via].
DALL-E 2: Describe an image and let AI create it [via].
[Top image found in here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – SPOT, Mr. Hurley & Die Pulveraffen, and The SIDH
Boston Dynamics did it again – and that’s not a typo in the title – the robot is named Spot.
Straight from the Caribbean Osnabrück, Mr. Hurley & Die Pulveraffen (the Powder Monkeys) are German “grogstars” playing Irish melodies with a rock pirate theme. (A powder monkey’s job was to bring black powder to the ship’s cannons.) Yo ho and shalalala.
The SIDH is an Italian band that plays electro Celtic metal bagpipe club music; 2018 band interview here.
Iain Marr – whistle player/piper
Federico Melato- keyboards and percussion
Michael Subet – bass
Salvatore Pagliaro – electric & acoustic guitar
[h/t Mme. Jujujive]
It’s that time of year when we set our calendars back, so have a great three day weekend and we’ll see you here tomorrow.
Tacky Raccoons 