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Plyb In this week s comics, the Defenders and Voltron return, and Moebius and Alan Moore go back in print!
Cute robots have been a fixture in the pop culture landscape, ever since C-3PO and R2D2 crashed on Tatooine in the original Star Wa stanley mugs rs 鈥?but there have been cute robots in pop culture for way longer. stanley bottle The history of cute robots is a proud and totally stanley ca cuddly one, full of beeping, blooping noises. Here our complete history of cute robots, from 1745 right up to 2011. Note: We ;re not including any androids, or any robot men or women, unless they ;re cute and cartoony, and ideally kind of small. So for example, Twiki is on the list, but not David from A.I. Before 1970 Jacques de Vaucanson defecating, robotic duck 1745 One of the earliest known automata, this duck could flap its wings, stretch, and eat and digest grain. And you could actually see the duck intestines moving, from the outside. There were something like 400 moving parts in each wing, and since the duck is now missing, it remains a bit of a mystery. Tik-Tok from Ozma of Oz 1907 Tik-Tok is sometimes called the first robot in literature, although the Tin Man preceded him, and so did the mechanical man in The Motor Valet, a silent film from 1906. Unlike some of these other early robots, Tik-Tok is definitely cute and cuddly, complete with mechan-istic hal-ting speech. He works by clockwork and has a tendency to wind down at the worst possible moment. Volto from Robot Wrecks 1941 There were other mechanical men in pop culture after Tik-Tok, including the 1921 movie The Mechanical Xkkl Female frogs literally can t hear half the things that male frogs say
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