Robots: Swivels, Speed, and Stumps (1928)

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Sometimes the future of the past looks a little, well, dodgy, or at least it looks a little too quickly assembled. 

I have a few robots to add to this blog's collection of robots--both are from the same volume of Popular Mechanics for 1928.  The first features a large manikin-like robotic cut-out, with a few swivel joints, and performs a couple of tasks. More than likely this was all that it could do.

And the next, which isn't a robot but looks like one, and which is stationary but "does" probably as much as the robot above:

 

 

 

And finally from this volume, the following, which are not robots and all but maybe/kinda look like them--bottom line is that it is  avery neat phoptograph: