Robotics & Automation · Recorded milestone
Elektro the talking robot
Recorded year1939
Westinghouse's 2-metre Elektro walks, talks and counts on its fingers at the New York World's Fair, showing robots to millions of visitors.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.