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Elektro



Elektro is the nickname of eight robots built by Westinghouse in Mansfield, Ohio between 1937 and 1938. Seven feet tall, weighing 300 pounds, humanoid in appearance, it could walk, talk (using a 78-rpm record player), smoke cigarettes, and move its head and arms.



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