[Tyler]

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The Automatons of Yesteryear
2 November 2013, 2:13 pm

On a bright September day in 1928, a curious crowd of onlookers got their first glimpse of Eric the Robot. The mechanical man rose from his chair, stretched out an arm for silence, and made a speech, of which few people understood more than a few words. In a special cable to The New York Times, one reporter remarked on the event, held at the exhibition of the Model Engineer’s Society of London: “Of all orators, Eric seemed the coldest and most lacking in magnetism.”NY TimesLink.

Source: AI in the News

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[Freddy]

This is a nice short read about early robots, quite interesting the foresight they had even back then before we had all the stuff we have today.  One quote caught my interest :

“In time to come the only work to be done by men and women will be that which requires faculties of discernment, discretion, and judgment,” Wensley was quoted as saying in 1933.

I think that's a good one. Worth a read