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Elektro, the Oldest U.S. Robot
Roland Piquepaille writes "If you happen to be around Ohio this coming fall, don't miss an exhibit at the Mansfield Memorial Museum featuring the 7-foot-tall Elektro, the oldest robot in the U.S.. "Elektro is the only survivor of a group of eight robots created by Westinghouse in Mansfield between 1931 to 1940 for several hundred thousand dollars each," according to the article from the Plain Dealer, Cleveland. Back in 1939, Elektro was able to walk, talk, raise and lower his arms, turn his head and move his mouth as he spoke. It used a 78-rpm record player to simulate conversation and had a vocabulary of more than 700 words. It even appeared in a long-time forgotten movie, "Sex Kittens Go to College," also known as "The Beauty and the Robot." Primidi.com has an overview containing other details, references and pictures."
Used in porn.
Go figure.
[Watching this movie was] Like watching Judge Judy do aerobics in a thong
Ahh thanks so much for that wonderful imagery.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Oops, wrong website...
Look inside this thing...I bet you find a very old, very cramped, and very ornery midget surrounded by all sorts of levers, buttons, switches, and pedals. ^_^
There's sex on the internet? Wow! You learn something new every day.
Bellows for smoking? It's Bender!
Elektro was able to walk, talk, raise and lower his arms, turn his head and move his mouth as he spoke.
...wow, just look how far technology has progressed since then!
Yeah? Well I think you're overrated too.
"Because Robots are strong and their claws are made of metal.
Robot Insurance: For when the metal ones come for you"
NO WONDER Elektro was such a stud...
look at the SIZE of that torso orifice!
The implications are cache-flushing.
Yet another reason why robot porn > human porn,
besides obviously the superior acting talent.
Robot: "Greetings, I am here to clean your pool"
Bao chica bao baaaaao!
Prior Art.
"Hel...lo. I...am...Elektro. I...am...prior...art...for...all...robots...to... come. Your...patent...is...invaild. Ha...ha...ha."
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Maybe he's the only survivor because they all smoked!
I am Awesome-O. I generate movie scripts for the MPAA.
They gave Elektro "bellows for smoking", no mention about "funnel for beer" though, then put him in soft-core porn...
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Bender would be so proud! His grandpa was a sexy smoking robot! (blueprint:http://davidszondy.com/future/robot/el
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." ~The Honorable Daniel Patrick Moynihan
*Whew* So my status as the oldest robot remains intact?
-- Al Gore
...is to give it the ability to smoke: Smoking bot
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Boilerplate is older than that.
come for the naked robots, stay for the zombies