Amazing 60 year old robot dog is a mystery
posted Aug 16th 2011 2:01pm by Caleb Kraftfiled under: robots hacks
The robot dog you see above is a mystery. [Daneil Dennet], a professor of philosophy at Tufts University found this in an antique shop in Paris. Apparently it has no identification and no one has been able to tell him anything about it. It was made in the 50s, and that seems to be all he knows. He’s offering a reward to whomever can reveal its secrets. There’s a full gallery of pictures to browse through that reveal some of the construction, but not a whole lot of the function.
We are just blown away by the construction here. Look at all those switches! Can you imagine how easy to reverse engineer things would have been back then? Surely in the right hands, someone could get this thing working again. Then again [Daniel] might like it kept completely original. If you know something about this robot, you can find [Daniel]‘s contact information here.
Oh, and yes, we realize it looks just like k-9.
tagged: dogGo there...
http://hackaday.com/2011/08/16/amazing-60-year-old-robot-dog-is-a-mystery/
That is a Master Piece of Mechanics and Electronics! And all in one Bad Dog!:)
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- Help identify this robot dog, win a prize!
- Amazing 60 year old robot dog is a mystery - Hack a Day
- Help identify this robot dog, win a prize! « Build Lounge
- Daniel C. Dennett's Home Page
- Mon Oncle (1958) - IMDb
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