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Author Archives: gwebs
Colossus
1970
- built to prevent war, becomes sentient
- Colossus and it’s Soviet counterpart, Guardian, join forces and nuke humanity
- Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
2001 a space odyssey
HAL 9000
1968 (2001)
HAL “became operational at the H A L plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January, 1992
HAL “Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer.”
- Heuristically programmed Algorithmic computer
- – spaceship Discovery One
- – 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
King Kong Escapes
Mecha Kong
1967
- 60 foot tall steel robot
– replica of the legendary King Kong - dome on the top of its head with a flashing light
Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
Dalek
1965 (2150)
- 5 foot tall
- robotic monsters from the planet Skaro
B-9
1964 (2058)
Environmental Control Robot
Model B-9
- on a ten-year mission
- on the Jupiter II spaceship
- 8-foot tall robot
“Warning! Warning!”
Lost in Space in the mid-to-late 1960s
Stanford Cart
1960 – 1980
1979 – first computer-controlled autonomous vehicle
