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It's 1939: Meet Elektro, Westinghouse's Giant Robot
discovermagazine.com — He's a charmer who smokes Lucky Strikes and has an eye for the ladies. A brain with 48 relays and 12 motors and a library of vinyl soundbites powered this gigantic automaton. Westinghouse played up Elektro as a household helper, a forebear to the mighty Roomba.
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