The Robot in Japan, 1920-1938:
A Gallery of Images


by Jess Nevins

 

Taken from Haruki Inoue's Nihon Robotto Soseiki (1993). The book is written in Japanese, which I don't read, so I can't provide any context for the photos or tell you anything about them.



Prom Date?  
The ScalziBot 9000, confronted with willful use of "alright"     Poster for the German film "Der Herr Der Welt" (1934), released in the US as "Master of the World" (1935).     Ferret's next project: The Open Source 'Bot Project.



How teachers will deal with students in the future. Gajo Sakamoto's comic strip character Tanku Tankuro.     Robotic Soviet Drummer Boy     Robot Kong looks good in red.    


Your guess is as good as mine, folks.     Again, no idea what this is.      Bug spray ad.     Robotic yentas OF TOMORROW!


    We've got chicken tonight. Strangest damn things. They're man-made. Little damn things, smaller than my fist - but they're new!     Air traffic control, circa 1930   I have dreams like this.


    Jet Jaguar, Mark 1.     Preferable, surely, to most DJs.         Again, your guess is as good as mine.


Robotic Doorman.         Misogyny, or a new ride at an amusement park?