![]() ![]() His lead acid batteries, also stashed in his honking feet, gave him a 4 1/2 hour operating time.Ĭygan made his public debut at the 35th International Samples Fair in Milan April 14th, 1957. He could do all of this on command, responding to spoken commands, visual signals and even light rays. ![]() Cygan could walk - or rather roll on wheels under each Frankenstein foot - backwards and forwards, turn right and left, raise his arms, lift things in his pincer hands and crush things in his pincer hands. He built three five-foot prototypes out of meccano, adding radio controls to the last two, and then went big with a robot more than eight feet high weighing more than 1,000 pounds. ![]() Piero Fiorito, a Turin engineer and aeromodeller, turned his skill with mechanics and radio control circuitry to the construction of humanoid robots.
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