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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.
