{"id":25146,"date":"2020-11-21T16:57:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T16:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/robotica\/este-fue-primer-robot-historia-podia-decir-700-palabras-voz-alta-fumaba-cigarrillos"},"modified":"2020-11-21T16:57:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T16:57:26","slug":"este-fue-el-primer-robot-de-la-historia-y-podia-decir-hasta-700-palabras-en-voz-alta-y-fumaba-cigarrillos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/este-fue-el-primer-robot-de-la-historia-y-podia-decir-hasta-700-palabras-en-voz-alta-y-fumaba-cigarrillos\/","title":{"rendered":"This was the first robot in history and could say up to 700 words out loud and smoked cigarettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/39a270\/elektro-pelicula\/1024_2000.jpeg\" alt=\"Este fue el primer robot de la historia y pod\u00eda decir hasta 700 palabras en voz alta y fumaba cigarrillos\">\n    <\/p>\n<p>One of the first authors to imagine a kind of robot, this time made of meat, was a woman: <strong>Mary Shelley<\/strong>. His Frankenstein Monster (1823) addressed the fear of a Faustian pact with Promethean echoes. Eighty years later, another woman conceived another mechanical robot but made of wax at a time when plastic or steel did not yet exist: <em>Handcuffs are made to order<\/em>, of <strong>Alice W. Fuller<\/strong> (1895).<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><\/p>\n<p>The first robot considered as such, and in the real world, would arrive a little later: in 1939. Its name was <em>ELECTRO<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>ELEKTRO, the first android<\/h2>\n<p><strong>ELECTRO<\/strong>, this is the nickname of the first robot in history and was conceived by Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Elektro was two meters tall, weighed 120 kg, could walk by voice command and say 700 words (thanks to a 78 rpm phonograph). In addition, he smoked cigarettes, blew up balloons, and moved his head and arms.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 3 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joseph Barnett<\/strong>, an engineer at Westinghouse Electric Corporation, used cutting-edge technology to create this first humanoid<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 4 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset-image article-asset-normal\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a\" class=\"centro_sinmarco\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/2aa4c9\/0-jrclci75i_cyw2xj\/450_1000.jpeg\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Its body consisted of a steel gear and cam skeleton, and its photoelectric &quot;eyes&quot; could distinguish red and green light. Its brain consists of 48 electrical relays that function like a telephone switchboard.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 5 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset-image article-asset-normal\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Elektro Museo 768x1024\" class=\"centro_sinmarco\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/0cd307\/elektro-museo-768x1024\/450_1000.jpg\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Elektro was on display at the New York World&#039;s Fair in 1939 and returned the following year with its companion <strong>sparki<\/strong>, a robot dog that could bark and sit.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 6 --><\/p>\n<p>Elektro participated in films such as: <em>Sex Kittens Go to College<\/em> from the year 1960, and appeared in the newspaper comic strip <em>The Amazing Spider-Man<\/em>. In 1992, the dance band Meat Beat Manifesto produced the song &quot;Original Control (Version 2)&quot; which included fragments of Elektro&#039;s monologues, quoting lines such as &quot;I am Elektro&quot; and &quot;My brain is larger than yours.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 7 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset-video\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<div class=\"base-asset-video\">\n   <iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AuyTRbj8QSA\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n  <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>An Elektro robot was seen in the November 24, 2019 episode of <em>Mr.Robot<\/em> , located in a Queens Museum storage room that was near the site of the Original 1939 and 1964 World&#039;s Fair. <\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 8 --><\/p>\n<p>It is currently owned by <strong>Mansfield Memorial Museum<\/strong>. In 2013, Elektro was displayed at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 9 --><\/p>\n<p>Someday, perhaps, we will be surrounded by robots made of atoms, <strong>or maybe bits<\/strong> (given our tendency to dematerialize the world). Be that as it may, perhaps we will disappear, engulfed by a new way of life or a viral conception of exponential reproduction. That&#039;s enough for another science fiction story, like the one I&#039;m telling you here:<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 10 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset-video\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<div class=\"base-asset-video\">\n   <iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N1xEvXOWa2M\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n  <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n (function() {\n  window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {};\n  var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];\n  if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) {\n   var instagramScript = document.createElement('script');\n   instagramScript.src = 'https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js';\n   instagramScript.async = true;\n   instagramScript.defer = true;\n   headElement.appendChild(instagramScript);\n  }\n })();\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p> &#8211; <br \/> The news<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/robotica\/este-fue-primer-robot-historia-podia-decir-700-palabras-voz-alta-fumaba-cigarrillos?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=21_Nov_2020\"><br \/>\n       <em> This was the first robot in history and could say up to 700 words out loud and smoked cigarettes <\/em><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      was originally published in<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=21_Nov_2020\"><br \/>\n       <strong> Xataka Science <\/strong><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n            by <a\n       href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/autor\/sergio-parra?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=21_Nov_2020\"><br \/>\n       Sergio Parra<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      . <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/xatakaciencia\/~4\/eSSWwfBBWMw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/39a270\/elektro-pelicula\/1024_2000.jpeg\" alt=\"Este fue el primer robot de la historia y pod\u00eda decir hasta 700 palabras en voz alta y fumaba cigarrillos\"><\/p>\n<p>One of the first authors to imagine a kind of robot, this time made of meat, was a woman: <strong>Mary Shelley<\/strong>. His Frankenstein Monster (1823) addressed the fear of a Faustian pact with Promethean echoes. Eighty years later, another woman conceived another mechanical robot but made of wax at a time when plastic or steel did not yet exist: <em>Handcuffs are made to order<\/em>, of <strong>Alice W. Fuller<\/strong> (1895).<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><\/p>\n<p>The first robot considered as such, and in the real world, would arrive a little later: in 1939. Its name was <em>ELECTRO<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>ELEKTRO, the first android<\/h2>\n<p><strong>ELECTRO<\/strong>, this is the nickname of the first robot in history and was conceived by Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Elektro was two meters tall, weighed 120 kg, could walk by voice command and say 700 words (thanks to a 78 rpm phonograph). In addition, he smoked cigarettes, blew up balloons, and moved his head and arms.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 3 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joseph Barnett<\/strong>, an engineer at Westinghouse Electric Corporation, used cutting-edge technology to create this first humanoid<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 4 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset-image article-asset-normal\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a\" class=\"centro_sinmarco\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/2aa4c9\/0-jrclci75i_cyw2xj\/450_1000.jpeg\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Its body consisted of a steel gear and cam skeleton, and its photoelectric &quot;eyes&quot; could distinguish red and green light. Its brain consists of 48 electrical relays that function like a telephone switchboard.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 5 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset-image article-asset-normal\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Elektro Museo 768x1024\" class=\"centro_sinmarco\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/0cd307\/elektro-museo-768x1024\/450_1000.jpg\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Elektro was on display at the New York World&#039;s Fair in 1939 and returned the following year with its companion <strong>sparki<\/strong>, a robot dog that could bark and sit.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 6 --><\/p>\n<p>Elektro participated in films such as: <em>Sex Kittens Go to College<\/em> from the year 1960, and appeared in the newspaper comic strip <em>The Amazing Spider-Man<\/em>. 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Be that as it may, perhaps we will disappear, engulfed by a new way of life or a viral conception of exponential reproduction. 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