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Bioelektryczność – Polish Robotics (1968) [video]

134 points| danielEM | 4 years ago |youtube.com | reply

I'm curious what was the state of an art in robotics area in 60s in different countries, feel free to post links to videos and pictures.

Here is my country - Poland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjrYk546uBA

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[+] danielEM|4 years ago|reply
I'm curious what was the state of an art in robotics area in 60s in different countries, feel free to post links to videos and pictures.

Here is my country - Poland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjrYk546uBA

[+] dang|4 years ago|reply
Posts without URLs get penalized, so I put your link in the URL field above and moved your original text to the thread.
[+] abraxas|4 years ago|reply
Awesome blast from the past. I wonder if this was ever featured on the legendary Polish TV program called "Sonda" (English title would "The Probe")? "Sonda" was a great pop-science show when those were much more science and much less pop. Just two dudes sitting and discussing new and future technology and its implications.

Damn, I miss "Sonda" so much and this clip took me right down that memory lane.

Here's the amazingly great intro music clip from the start of that show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHT8u52bSVE&ab_channel=Dukat...

[+] RicoElectrico|4 years ago|reply
The best thing about Sonda was that one of the hosts took a position on the episode's theme, and the other - an opposite one, even if just for the sake of discourse.
[+] heyitsme|4 years ago|reply
I was just a kid in the 80s, but indeed remember watching "Sonda" - it was fantastic! Going through some episodes now on youtube, does bring back memories. There was another show in the late 80s called "Bliżej świata" (English: "Closer to the World"), which would run for an hour or so on a Sunday night and show snippets from western tv shows. The contrast to the (usually) very bleak communist Polish TV, was striking. For me, back then, watching both of these shows felt like looking through a window into a different world.
[+] scyzoryk_xyz|4 years ago|reply
Yes! Though Sonda was the early 80’s no?

Sonda definitely had little oversight and no screenwriting, but it was very honest and well intentioned in that old school Polish-Socialist Politechnika Engineer sort of way. Definitely a breath of fresh air, even today. Makes one wonder if this was the same in other Socialist Republics or was unique to Poland.

[+] Claude_Shannon|4 years ago|reply
And to imagine we had lost most of the episodes, as the tape was reused :(
[+] baal80spam|4 years ago|reply
> "The Proble"

Typolice: I'm pretty sure you meant "The Probe"

[+] foofoo55|4 years ago|reply
It's so advanced the robot arm gets ahead of the guy at the 11 second mark.
[+] furyg3|4 years ago|reply
I'm glad someone else noticed this...
[+] mirekrusin|4 years ago|reply
Grabs pack of fags on demo - classic.
[+] pndy|4 years ago|reply
Cigs pack was probably at hand and back then wrapped in thin paper it was soft enough to train with such tech; I wouldn't expect the arm would be able to proudly pick and carry the PZPR standard right away. I still wonder how this was done - it moves really smooth

Besides, pretty sure that's still a valid term for cigarettes in the UK so please hold your angry clicks folks

[+] simonblack|4 years ago|reply
Robotics?? What dat?? (Australia)
[+] tuatoru|4 years ago|reply
It was great! At home we had semi-automatic washing machines, and laundry dryers and ovens with timers on them. Some people had central heating with thermostats, too.

And there were automatic lifts (elevators, for US-ians) in office buildings and department stores--just press the button to go to your floor. Amazing!

[+] luxurytent|4 years ago|reply
Can you elaborate on this?