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250 year old

A 250 year old AUTOMATON HAND

Marie Antoinette

An early AUTOMATON of MARIE ANTOINETTE

the Maillardet AUTOMATON

The MAILLARDET AUTOMATON

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"Psycho" - an automaton from the turn of the century

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A poster for the Maskelyne's Magic Show featuring "Zoe" and "Psycho"

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An ad for the Maskelyne's Magic Act featuring "Psycho"

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A Diagram showing the inner workings of "Psycho"

Mechanical singing birds

MECHANICAL singing BIRDS

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The WIRELESS DOG (1916)

Murder Monkey

MURDER MONKEY automaton

MASCHINENMENSCH 1927

The MARIA ROBOTRI "MASCHINENMENSCH" from METROPOLIS (1927)

Maria from the 1927 film Metropolis

A Statue of the Maria ROBOTRIX from Metropolis that stands in Babelsberg, Germany

Gort laser 1951

GORT, firing his laser, from THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951) Directed by ROBER WISE

Zen on a convention panel with Barbara Crampton, Ted Sorel and John Buechler

A classic ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION cover by FRANK KELLY FREAS (1953) This image was later turned into a QUEEN album cover, as well as a model kit.

TOBOR THE GREAT (1954)

TOBOR THE GREAT (1954) foreshadowed Robby's clear domed "exposed brain" style

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ROBBY THE ROBOT from FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956) Designed by ROBERT KINOSHITA

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ROBBY obeys the LAWS OF ROBOTICS, by disobeying an order to harm a human, and blows his circuits in FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956)

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ROBBY fires his beams to disarm the intruder's blasters in FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956)

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A close up of ROBBY THE ROBOT

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LOUIS and BEBE BARRON created CYBERNETIC CIRCUITS for the sound of each character to achieve the first all electronic film score for FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956)

COLOSSUS (1958)

THE COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK (1958), foreshadowed the tragedy of the ROBO COP origin.

Disney's "Mr. Lincoln"

DISNEY's ABRAHAM LINCOLN audio-animatronic for GREAT MOMENTS WITH MR. LINCOLN

ROBOT JOHN (1962)

Robot JOHN from PLANETA BUR (1962) which was changed for it's U.S. release into VOYAGE TO A PREHISTORIC PLANET (1965) and then changed a 2nd time and turned into VOYAGE TO THE PLANET OF PREHISTORIC WOMEN (1968)

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THE ROBOT SPY from the first season of JOHNNY QUEST (1964-1965)

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The ROBOT (also designed by ROBERT KINOSHITA) on his way to kill WILL ROBINSON in one of the "serious first five" episodes of LOST IN SPACE (1965)

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The ROBOT, now known as B-9, becomes WILL ROBINSON's best friend in the later, color, episodes of LOST IN SPACE (1965-1968)

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A schematic of THE ROBOT's functions

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ROBBY THE ROBOT, as a guest star villain, squares of against B-9 on the WAR OF THE ROBOTS episode of LOST IN SPACE (1966)

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THE ROBOT employing it's "Electro-Massage" function

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TOM BAKER, the 4th DOCTOR WHO, towers over a DALEK

RUK from STAR TREK 1966

TED CASSIDY as the android RUK from STAR TREK (1966)

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NOMAD wipes UHURA's memory in THE CHANGELING episode of STAR TREK (1967)

COLOSSUS (1970)

Check out the creepy robotic voice of WORLD CONTROL in COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT (1970)

Magnus Robot fighter

MAGNUS ROBOT FIGHTER cover from the early 1970's

YUL BRYNNER 1973

YUL BRYNNER as the robot GUNSLINGER in WESTWORLD (1973)

Drones 1972

BRUCE DERN saving Earth's last forests with his helpful DRONES in DOUGLAS TRUMBULL's SILENT RUNNING (1972)

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A diagram of the functions of R2D2

MASCHINENMENSCH

ED-209 in ROBOCOP (1987)

BRAD BIRD's fantastic feature length car

BRAD BIRD's fantastic feature length cartoon THE IRON GIANT !1999)

Robots in Cinema

A group illustration of compiled ROBOTS from Cinema and Television

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