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The “Power Driven Articulated Dummy” was designed by the IIT Research Institute for NASA to testing the space suits at first half of 1960s. The testing conducted in the 1960s on a NASA Android. [3] The hydraulically powered life-size robot with weight of 104.326 kg (230 pounds) was controlled by the operator from a…
The Tu-123 «Yastreb» (another designation: DBR-1) – supersonic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), created by the Tupolev Design Bureau (Tupolev OKB-156) at the early 1960s in the Soviet Union. It was intended to conduct the photographic and electronic reconnaissance at ranges up to 3,200 km.[1-4] The DBR-1 was created on base of the Tu-121 UAV (was…
Robotug is a mobile automatic transport truck (TT), created by British multinational company EMI. This device is able to carry a cargo directly or a set of the trolleys.[1] Robotug transport truck with the automatic course stabilization: 1 – brake coil; 2 – transistorized device of control; 3 – handle braking; 4 – drive; 5…
Collecting the samples of lunar soil and delivery them to Earth was a part of the Luna program, that included a series of robotic spacecraft missions sent to the Moon by the Soviet Union between 1959 and 1976. The lunar soil samples were successfully retrieved by Luna-16, Luna-20 and Luna-24 probes. All these spacecrafts had…
Unimate was the first patented industrial robot, which worked on a General Motors assembly line at the Inland Fisher Guide Plant in Ewing Township, New Jersey, in 1961. It was created by George Devol in the 1950s using his original patent filed in 1954 and granted in 1961. George Devol, together with Joseph Engelberger, started…
Shakey the robot was the first general-purpose mobile robot to be able to reason about its own actions. While other robots would have to be instructed on each individual step of completing a larger task, Shakey could analyze the command and break it down into basic chunks by itself.[1][2][3][4] Shakey was developed from 1966 through…
“Moon Walker” is the eight-legged walking chair, designed by space engineers to aid children with disorders of the musculoskeletal system. Moon Walker walking chair. [1] The vehicle, was originally designed as a means of transportation on the lunar surface, suddenly became suitable for another purpose. Children, who have lost ability of the free motion due…
In 1965 at the University of Southern California R. McGhee and A. Frank constructed four-legged walking machine, known as «The Californian Horse» or «Phony Pony». This device was equipped by electrical motors, it had two degrees of freedom in each leg (thigh and knee) and one adaptive degree of freedom in the frontal plane.[1] The…
In 1963 N. Mizen (Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, Buffalo NY) has developed a passive exoskeleton, which was able to register (with big precision) the movements of all parts of the body except the neck, fingers and toes.[1] Exoskeleton of N. Mizen. [1] The obtained data are very considerable for the development of active exoskeletons (from…
Lunokhod is a series (Lunokhod-0, Lunokhod-1, Lunokhod-2, Lunokhod-3) of the Soviet remote controlled self-propelled apparatuses for exploration of Moon. History of the creation of Soviet automatic mobile laboratory for the study of the Moon begins from the first half of 1960s. In 1963, S. Korolyov (Soviet scientist, designer and organizer of the production of the…
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