At the 1939 World's Fair, Westinghouse displayed a walking, talking, humanoid robot named "Elektro".

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Given the rather obvious technical limitations they were up against, the engineers did an amazing job with it. Remember, this was well before the transistor- the computer system that powered it was made from mechanical relays. It could do primitive ( Read more... )

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The new TV series, "The Middleman" is sixteen gallons of awesome in a six gallon jug. Let me put it this way: this show is so awesome it will be canceled in six episodes or less ( Read more... )