Pop Sci's kooky vintage robot photo gallery

By at 9:33 am Tuesday, Apr 27

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Popular Science has a fun gallery of kooky vintage robots from way back in the day that do random tasks. For example, this 1949 robot named Elektro can count to 10 and smoke cigarettes.

Archive Gallery: Vintage Robots [Popular Science]

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Lisa Katayama

I'm a contributing editor here at Boing Boing. I also have a blog (TokyoMango), a book (Urawaza), and I freelance for Wired, Make, the NY Times Magazine, PRI's Studio360, etc. I'm @tokyomango on Twitter.

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