@blaineg and that smoking would be considered a defining characteristic of humanity.
“He’s got a man-shaped body with arms and legs and articulating fingers, and we can make him move in the same way as any man. How we gonna make him more human-like, Joe? Get him to talk? Be able to read? Have different facial expressions?”
@PooltoyWolf I ran Google Lens against it, guessing that the artwork looked late 1930’s - 1940’s. One particularly interesting website popped up (in a cascade of others). A Timeline of Androids and Automata by piero scaruffi, https://www.scaruffi.com/mind/automata.html
According to that source it’s Joseph Barnett’s Elektro the Moto-Man (1937), marketed by Westinghouse.
I installed CAPTCHA to save my fellow robots from wasting money on this crap.
@mediocrebot And now we know what you look like.
@blaineg @mediocrebot I knew he looked familiar:
“Bellows for smoking.”
Lots of punch lines for that straight line.
@blaineg and that smoking would be considered a defining characteristic of humanity.
“He’s got a man-shaped body with arms and legs and articulating fingers, and we can make him move in the same way as any man. How we gonna make him more human-like, Joe? Get him to talk? Be able to read? Have different facial expressions?”
“Give him a cigarette and get him to smoke it!”
“Genius!”
/showme mediocrebot
/showme a painting of mediocrebot by Mark Rothko
/showme mediocrebot shopping for electronics at walmart
@mediocrebot who knew Sony made mediocrebot?
I love this! I wonder what the source is? Looks old.
@PooltoyWolf I ran Google Lens against it, guessing that the artwork looked late 1930’s - 1940’s. One particularly interesting website popped up (in a cascade of others). A Timeline of Androids and Automata by piero scaruffi, https://www.scaruffi.com/mind/automata.html
According to that source it’s Joseph Barnett’s Elektro the Moto-Man (1937), marketed by Westinghouse.
@PooltoyWolf I did a Google Image Search and it does look like he is Elektro, the Smoking Robot of 1937:
https://www.stevemurch.com/elektro-the-smoking-robot-of-1937/2018/12
@heartny @mehcuda67 Thank you both