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RB Robot The RB Robot stand with RB5Xs. The one on the left, on its own plinth, has the arm module fitted. |
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RB Robot The RB Robot stand with RB5Xs, Heathkit in the background. Later the RB5s were taken down from the tables and were let run free on the stand, avoiding people and things using their ultrasonics and saying "sorry" and "excuse me" when they did bump into something. It was amazing to see the robots and people mingling on the stand, it was just as if the RB5s were alive like small children and when one did find its way out of the stand, a RB robot representative would just go after it and bring it back just like one would a child. |
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Heathkit Heathkit Hero-1, |
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Heathkit A Hero-1 with the RB Robot stand in the background. |
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Heathkit Two Hero-1s |
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Androbot Two Topos on the Androbot stand |
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Androbot Topo |
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Androbot Topo |
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Androbot BOB (Brains On Board) with its lifter on the front. BOB was a prototype 2nd generation robot with a primative vision system and a lifting arm on the front, able in the right light to find and fetch a special table. |
 | Marvin |
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Cyber Robotics A Cyber Robotics Arm |
 | Fetal-1 an omnidirectional base |
 | Fetal-1 with its designer behind |
 | An omnidirectional base with a robot arm on top |
 | Fetal-1s designer |
 | 'I have forgotten'. It appears to be base on the Unicorn design. A better photo is at http://www.theoldrobots.net/robots33.html |
 | 'I have forgotten' |
 | Another Arm and a walking toy |
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Polaroid
I took my Sinclair microvision TV with me because it was supposed to work anywhere in the world and I wanted to try it out. We got talking to the Polaroid reps and it turned out Polaroid had made special Lithium batteries for the Sinclair TV and so I lent them my TV to have on their stand for the exhibition to show off their batteries. Actually they were a little unhappy with Sinclair because the sales of the TV and hence batteries were lower than expected. In return for the loan of the TV they gave me a Polaroid Ultrasonic designer set and a heap of the 6v Lithium batteries. David Buckley |