Computer History Museum

Robots

Item Details

Level of description
Folder
Date
1951-1953 (Bulk), 1947-1966
Collection title
Edmund C. Berkeley papers
Catalogue number
600000133

Clipping from Popular Science.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102714255
Robot squirrel hunts his own food

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102671910

This is the version that was sold to the public at that time. Folder also contains an article clipped from Radio Electronics magazine circa 1950.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102671911

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102671912

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102671913

Includes the report by Andrew Vall "A report on Simple Simon...a midget brain."

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102671914

Berkeley's original folder was annotated "final copy."

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102671915

Berkeley's original folder was annotated "copy being worked out."

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102671916

This is the version that was sold to the public at that time.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102671917

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102671918

Contains one 8x10 black and white photograph of Simon. "Radio-Electronics" stamped on the back.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102671919

Berkeley's original folder title was "Robots - exhibiting, etc. - current." Also, contains one 3x5 black and white photograph of Edmund C. Berkeley, Robert A. Jenson, and Andrew Vall looking at Simon.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102671920

Photocopied magazine articles and photocopied newspaper clippings.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102671921

Contains the cover article "World's smallest electric brain" by Edmund C. Berkeley and Robert A. Jensen.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102671922

Includes Brainiac, Geniac, Tyniac, Simon, and Squee Robot Squirrel, as well as math, logic, plants, and travel.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102671923

Design by John P. Marchant

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102671924

Includes newspaper clippings about Simon and Squee, including the 1951 cover article from Radio Electronics. 1 photograph of Squee.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102714256

Includes newspaper, magazine, and journal clippings about Squee, Robin the Robot, Machina Docilis, Machina Speculatrix, and the Homeostat.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102726109

Includes "Preliminary Report on the Magnetic Drum Memory," "Tic-Tac-Toe Playing Machine Plans," "Memoradum for Members of the Robot Enterprise," and a press release for Edmund C. Berkeley and Associates' exhibit of small robots.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102726110

Includes drafts of articles for Radio Electronics, clippings of articles by Edmund C. Berkeley and Robert A. Jensen from Radio Electronics, handwritten diagrams and notes, and correspondence.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102726111