Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/05/13/vintage-found-photos-of-robots.html
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I don’t know quite how to feel about the coffeepot robot.
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I can do it! I can see Alpha the Robot… or, at least, I can see a photographic representation of Alpha of the Robot… unless that isn’t actually Alpha the Robot, but a huckster hawking Alpha’s gig… Man, Metaphysics is complex stuff.
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Shhh. It’s okay. Think of it like a Scooby Doo episode - that robot isn’t real, it is just Mr. Roberts dressed in a crude robot costume!
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Not gonna ask what the nipples are for. Nope.
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Technically, aren’t robots usually nude?
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Well, on Diva-Droid International’s 4000 series of mechanoids, the right nipple-nut is used to regulate body temperature, while the left nipple-nut is used mainly to pick up shortwave radio transmissions.
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I considered replying with a clip from Tetsuo but decided today I won’t be that guy.
[walks away whistling]
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“Like” for Flesh Gordon mention
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“KANEDAAAaaa!!”
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HAHAHAHA. Nailed it.
I need to rewatch it. Its been too long.
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Ok, it’s not a photo and it’s, I suppose, technically not a robot, but this ad for the electric dog is just stunningly stupid so here ya go:
I bet you also want the schematics? Well:
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That dog has worms!
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