1939 ELEKTRO the Smoking Robot! New York World's Fair

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That’s Elektro. According to wikipedia, he had a most American life: he toured America in 1950 as part of a Westinghouse promotion, then had a bit part in a 1960s Mamie Van Doren movie “Sex Kittens Go to College,” where he was billed as “Thinko.” He came close to destruction, but is being rehabbed.