TALKING ROBOTS.
ON EXHIBITION IN LONDON. London, Sept. 15. London’s population has been increased by two robots, displaying startling ability to move and talk. One named Eric will to-day open a model engineering exhibition at London, making a speech suitable to the occasion. Eric is six foot of steel, in which wireless mechanism is concealed. It not only moves its head and arms at'words of command, but) can differentiate between drinks. Asked whether it preferred ginger ale or double Scotch, it replied “double Scotch.” The inventor offers robots similar to Eric for £l5O.
The other robot, named Ronald, is mystifying audiences at the Queen’s Hall. Its creator is Captain Roberts, who invented the wireless torpedo. He makes Ronald come to life by means of an electric torch, which plays upon the steel body, which then moves and converses at the inventor’s will.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3846, 18 September 1928, Page 2
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142TALKING ROBOTS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3846, 18 September 1928, Page 2
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