Elektro

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Elektro

Elektro is the nickname of a robot

Robot

A robot is a virtual or mechanical artificial agent. In practice, it is usually an Electromechanics which, by its appearance or movements, conveys a sense that it has Intention or Agency of its own....
built by the Pittsburgh-based

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh is the second largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania with a population of 312,819. The population of the seven-county metropolitan area is 2,462,571....
Westinghouse Electric Corporation in its Mansfield, Ohio

Mansfield, Ohio

Mansfield is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Richland County, Ohio. The municipality is located in north-central Ohio in the western foothills of the Allegheny Plateau, approximately 80 miles southwest of Cleveland, Ohio and 66 miles northeast of Columbus, Ohio....
facility between 1937 and 1938. Seven feet tall, weighing 265 pounds, humanoid in appearance, he could walk by voice command, talk (using a 78-rpm record player

Phonograph

The record player, phonograph or gramophone was the most common device for playing Sound recording and reproduction sound from the 1870s through the 1980s....
), smoke cigarettes, blow up balloons, and move his head and arms. Elektro's body consisted of a steel gear, cam and motor skeleton covered by an aluminum skin.

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Elektro is the nickname of a robot

Robot

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Mansfield, Ohio

Phonograph

Photodetector

Photosensors or photodetectors are sensors of light or other electromagnetic energy. There are several varieties:*optics detectors, which are mostly quantum devices in which an individual photon produces a discrete effect....
"eyes" could distinguish red and green light. He was on exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair

1939 New York World's Fair

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and reappeared at that fair in 1940, with "Sparko", a robot dog that could bark, sit, and beg.

Elektro toured North America in 1950 in promotional appearances for Westinghouse, and was displayed at Palisades Park

Palisades Park

Palisades Park is the name of several places in the United States:*Palisades Park, New Jersey, Borough in Bergen County*Palisades Amusement Park, defunct amusement park located in the New Jersey boroughs of Cliffside Park and Fort Lee...
in Oceanside, California

Oceanside, California

Oceanside is the third-largest city in San Diego County, California, California, United States. The city has a population of 173,303. Together with Vista, California and Carlsbad, California, it forms a "Tri-City area." The city is located just south of Camp Pendleton, the busiest military base in the United States....
in the late fifties

1950s

The 1950s decade was the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive. The Fifties in the developed western world are generally considered social conservative and highly Consumerism in nature....
and early sixties

1960s

The 1960s list of decades were the years from the start of 1960 to the end of 1969. The term also refers to an era more often called The Sixties, denoting the complex of inter-related cultural and political trends in the west, particularly United States, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Brazil, Australia, Spain, Italy, and Ger...
. He also appeared as "Thinko", in a 1960 film

1960 in film

The year 1960 in film involved some significant events....
, , which starred Mamie Van Doren

Mamie Van Doren

Mamie Van Doren is an United States actor and sex symbol....
and Tuesday Weld

Tuesday Weld

Tuesday Weld is an American actress.Weld began her acting career as a child, and progressed to more mature roles during the late 1950s. She won a Golden Globe Award in 1960....
. In the 1960s, his head was given to a retiring Westinghouse engineer and his body was sold for scrap.

In 1992, the dance band Meat Beat Manifesto

Meat Beat Manifesto

Meat Beat Manifesto, often shortened to Meat Beat or MBM, is an electronic music outfit originally consisting of Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens formed in 1987 in Swindon, United Kingdom....
produced the song "Original Control (Version 2)" which prominently featured snippets of Elektro's monologues, quoting lines such as "I am Elektro" and "My brain is bigger than yours".

Elektro survived the scrap pile and is being restored by . It is currently the property of the Mansfield Memorial Museum.

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from a former Westinghouse employee
Shows entire Elektro demo starting at 34 minutes into movie.