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"Maschinenmensch" from the 1927 film Metropolis. Statue in Babelsberg, Germany. This list of fictional robots and androids is chronological, and categorised by medium. It includes all depictions of robots, androids and gynoids in literature, television, and cinema; however, robots that have appeared in more than one form of media are not necessarily listed in each of those media.
Rock'Em Sock'Em Robots even got movie cameos, as vintage toys in "The Santa Clause 2" and "Toy Story 2." And each Christmas, local toymakers became toy givers, courtesy of Marx Toys.
Kenny Irwin Jr., the creator of the sculptures, created his first robot, a 10 ft (3.0 m)-tall wooden robot, at age 9. He developed a signature style — large, lit-up, and multicolored robots. His father, Ken Irwin Sr., who is also an artist, allowed him to use the family home as a "canvas" and Irwin continued to build robots since.
A trumpet-playing Toyota robot. The history of robots has its origins in the ancient world. During the Industrial Revolution, humans developed the structural engineering capability to control electricity so that machines could be powered with small motors. In the early 20th century, the notion of a humanoid machine was developed.
The Convertors were a line of action figures made by Japanese toy company MARK and localized in North America by New York-based Select in the 1980s.. Often compared to the more famous Gobots and Transformers, the Convertors were a line of toys which came out at about the same time and also featured transforming robots.
Robot Christmas trees are artificial trees equipped with features to make setup easier than hacking away at a real tree’s trunk to fit a base and storage simpler than trying to cram tinsel ...
Robots (or other artificial beings) designed to convincingly resemble humans are known as "androids". The term animatronics is a portmanteau of animate and electronics . The term Audio-Animatronics was coined by Walt Disney in 1961 [ 7 ] when he started developing professional animatronics for entertainment and film.
Learn more about the history, origin and official rules of the beloved Christmas tradition. Get a closer look at the Elf on the Shelf story. Learn more about the history, origin and official rules ...