On: Elektro, the Moto-Man, Is a Friendly “Frankenstein...

[krapp]

According to Wikipedia[0] it also featured as Thinko the robot in the 1960 movie "Sex Kittens go to College[1,2]"

Also this is an excuse to repost the Old Robots website which has an Elektro page[3].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektro

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Kittens_Go_to_College

[2]https://youtu.be/KLV6KBXZ5_M?t=4963 (nsfw, if the title weren't enough of a giveaway, but I mean is your job really worth not seeing Mamie Van Doren do a striptease for a robot and his wacky monkey friend?)

[3]https://www.theoldrobots.com/Electro.html

We can hide in this thread from all of the economics majors on HN.

[krapp → krapp]

More interesting old robots from the future I wish I lived in instead...

Arok

https://www.theoldrobots.com/arok.html

https://www.flyingcarsandfoodpills.com/arok-the-robot

Roll-Oh (which I think was just a dude in a costume but still deliciously goofy-looking)

https://www.theoldrobots.com/Roll-oh-robot.html

ODEX-1

https://www.theoldrobots.com/odex.html

https://cyberneticzoo.com/walking-machines/1983-odex-1-funct...

https://dailytitan.com/lifestyle/defunct-aging-robot-odex-1-...

Gygan

https://www.theoldrobots.com/Gygan.html

http://davidbuckley.net/DB/HistoryMakers/Gygan.htm

ASV Walker

https://www.theoldrobots.com/OSU-ASV_Walker.html

https://www.thedrive.com/news/36157/the-us-army-spent-millio...

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Best HN comment of the week, thanks for being awesome :)