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thumb|Replicas of Elektro the moto-man and his little dog Sparko

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Instance of
humanoid robot
Named after
electricity
Material used
aluminium
Mass
265
Image
Senator John Heinz History Center - IMG 7802.JPG
Height
7
Has parts of class
photodetector
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inception
1937-00-00
different from
electro
exhibition history
1939 New York World's Fair
location of creation
Mansfield
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  • Physical specifications
  • Exhibit history
  • Property dispute
  • References
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thumb|Replicas of Elektro the moto-man and his little dog Sparko

Elektro is a robot built by J.M. Barnett, Jack Weeks Sr., Harold Gorsuch, and other engineers at the Westinghouse Electric Corporations Mansfield, Ohio, facility between 1937 and 1938.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Elektro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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