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Vintage Japanese robot from the 30s

By Shay on Aug 6th, 2007     

Check out this retro photo of a super cool robo:

This is photo taken in the early 1930s of Mitsui Yasutaro and his “own steel humanoid”. Very impressive. The robot is the one on the left by the way.

…the fascination goes back this far? Oh yeah, much much further. I have some questions though. What was this robo guy’s name? How did he work? What could he do? What do all those dials and knobs do? Are those vacuum tubes? Sweet.

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3 Responses »

  1. Taking it to MOON! -Space Race 2.0 - SparkPlugged - Asian Music Culturetainment & More on September 19th, 2007 at 8:09 pm:

    [...] should be fine, as long as this isn’t their rover… [...]

  2. Toy Soldier on September 22nd, 2008 at 12:04 am:

    Dr.Steel uses this image as his wallpaper in the Dr.Steel show!

    Dr.Steel for World Emperor!

  3. Dave on October 16th, 2008 at 4:50 pm:

    I recently wrote about this guy and his robot on my humorous blog:

    http://thehistorybluff.com/2008/10/14/snapshot-of-history-the-humanoid/

    Unfortunately I could not find one bit of information about this topic. Strange how such an invention just disappeared isn’t it?

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