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The world's first android appeared in 1957, the year and looked strange
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2, 5-meter-high robot with remote control upravleniya
Android called «Cygan» («Saigal" or "Gypsy") was born in the distant 1957 year: it was touted as a "universal robots", suggesting, for example, in experiments with toxic and explosive substances or as an assistant housework.
The brainchild of an Italian engineer and model aircraft Piero Fiorito, "Gypsy" weighs about a ton and is controlled by a remote control korotkochastotnymi radio signals at a distance of 1, 5 km. Almost 2, 5-meter-long robot consists of about 300 thousand pieces, including 13 electric motors, various valves 170, and about 30 of mechanical drives, and "food" it provides a battery of 28 V.
Features of the robot (especially considering the time of its "birth") is impressive, "Saigal" able to move back and forth at a rate of up to three meters per minute, operate "hands" and nod "head", as well as to respond to the voice and light. In addition, this "pet" is able, for example, to open the cans and even dance.
Piero Fiorito sold his creation of one of the British advertising company that used "Gypsies" to attract visitors to one of the exhibitions of the British achievements of the national economy - «British Food Fair». In England, a robot named «Gygan», and in 1970 he became a symbol of the company-car dealer «South East Essex Motors», after which earned him the nickname "Mr. Moto».
Now Android has lost much of its capacity due to a shortage of certain electronic components, but at auction «Christie's» it still cost the buyer from the UK in a tidy sum - $ 27,660, which was a complete surprise for the organizers of the auction: the original price ranges from $ 12 thousand to $ 18 thousand.
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Android called «Cygan» («Saigal" or "Gypsy") was born in the distant 1957 year: it was touted as a "universal robots", suggesting, for example, in experiments with toxic and explosive substances or as an assistant housework.
The brainchild of an Italian engineer and model aircraft Piero Fiorito, "Gypsy" weighs about a ton and is controlled by a remote control korotkochastotnymi radio signals at a distance of 1, 5 km. Almost 2, 5-meter-long robot consists of about 300 thousand pieces, including 13 electric motors, various valves 170, and about 30 of mechanical drives, and "food" it provides a battery of 28 V.
Features of the robot (especially considering the time of its "birth") is impressive, "Saigal" able to move back and forth at a rate of up to three meters per minute, operate "hands" and nod "head", as well as to respond to the voice and light. In addition, this "pet" is able, for example, to open the cans and even dance.
Piero Fiorito sold his creation of one of the British advertising company that used "Gypsies" to attract visitors to one of the exhibitions of the British achievements of the national economy - «British Food Fair». In England, a robot named «Gygan», and in 1970 he became a symbol of the company-car dealer «South East Essex Motors», after which earned him the nickname "Mr. Moto».
Now Android has lost much of its capacity due to a shortage of certain electronic components, but at auction «Christie's» it still cost the buyer from the UK in a tidy sum - $ 27,660, which was a complete surprise for the organizers of the auction: the original price ranges from $ 12 thousand to $ 18 thousand.
via factroom.ru
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