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CBI Image o' Day. General Electric was showing off various forms of robots in the 1950s. Here, we see mechanical hands, striking match & lighting a cigarette of a GE employee. Isn't automation grand!?



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Interesting, but it seems these particular mechanical hands were manually controlled, ie master-slave manipulator. This article also gives an earlier date in the 1940s...

https://www.vintag.es/2021/08/ge-master-slave-manipulator.html

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