Elektro - Wikipedia Elektro For other uses, see Electro. Elektro the Moto - Man and his Little Dog Sparko Elektro is the nickname of a robot built by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in its Mansfield, Ohio facility between 1937 and 1938. Seven feet tall ( 2.1 m ), weighing 265 pounds ( 120.2 kg ), humanoid in appearance, he could walk by voice command, speak about 700 words ( using a 78 - rpm record player ), smoke cigarettes, blow up balloons, and move his head and arms. Elektro 's body consisted of a steel gear, cam and motor skeleton covered by an aluminum skin. His photoelectric `` eyes '' could distinguish red and green light. He was on exhibit at the 1939 New York World 's Fair and reappeared at that fair in 1940, with `` Sparko '', a robot dog that could bark, sit, and beg to humans. History Elektro toured North America in 1950 in promotional appearances for Westinghouse, and was displayed at Pacific Ocean Park in Venice, California in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He also appeared as `` Thinko '', in Sex Kittens Go to College ( 1960 ). In the 1960s, his head was given to Harold Gorsuch, a retiring Westinghouse engineer. In 1992, the dance band Meat Beat Manifesto produced the song `` Original Control ( Version 2 ) '' which prominently featured snippets of Elektro 's monologues, quoting lines such as `` I am Elektro '' and `` My brain is bigger than yours ''. Elektro survived the scrap pile and is currently the property of the Mansfield Memorial Museum. In 2013, a replica of Elektro was exhibited at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI. A `` Mansfield Museum of Circuitry and Robotics '' and anecdotes about Elektro and Sparko are briefly but touchingly presented in the beginning of the novel The Man from Primrose Lane by James Renner, 2012, Sarah Crichton Books, an imprint of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Robotics portal References Jump up ^ The Return of Electro, Jack Weeks, New Scientist Jump up ^ America 's First Celebrity Robot is Staging a Comeback, Emma Jacobs, National Rublic Radio Jump up ^ `` Designing Tomorrow : America 's World 's Fairs of the 1930s Exhibit Preview ''. The Henry Ford Museum. April 2013. Archived from the original on 2014 - 02 - 20. External links Elektro commentary YouTube Video footage of Elektro at the 1939 World 's Fair The Middleton Family at the New York World 's Fair ( 1939 ) Shows entire Elektro demo starting at 34 minutes into movie. Mansfield Memorial Museum Humanoid robots Legged Mini ASRA C1 Bioloid Choromet Coco Evolta FemiSapien RoboSapien Robosapien v2 Ropid RS Media HOAP JO - ZERO KHR - 1 Kirobo & Mirata KT - X Manav Nao PALRO PERSIA PINO PLEN QRIO Robovie - PC RX SIGMO Small / medium Archie ASIMO Athlete Robot AR - 600 E-nuvo Flame GuRoo HUBO iCub J4 Lara Murata Boy and Murata Girl REEM Toyota Partner Robot Xianxingzhe Human - sized Atlas ATOM - 7xp Dr. Motor E series Eric George HRP - 4 IsaacRobot Johnnie Kiyomori Kobian Leonardo 's robot Manny MAHRU / AHRA Musa P series PETMAN Robot Man of Szeged SAM10 SURALP Surena TOPIO Wabian Wabot WASUBOT WHL - 11 Big Elektro Land Walker Wheeled GuRoo EMIEW Enon Hadaly - 2 i - SOBOT Justin Nexi Pepper RI - MAN ROBINA Sanbot Seropi TOPIO Dio TWENDY - ONE Wakamaru With tracks BEAR Upper torso Domo Gakutensoku Geoff Peterson Greenman Junior LUDWIG Robonaut Saika Simon Sota Telenoid R1 See also Androids Cyborgs Robot fetishism This robotics - related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elektro&oldid=834273741 '' Categories : Historical robots Mansfield, Ohio 1939 New York World 's Fair Humanoid robots 1937 robots Robots of the United States Robotics stubs Talk About Wikipedia Català Deutsch 한국어 Edit links This page was last edited on 4 April 2018, at 20 : 44. About Wikipedia

Question: in 1938 westinghouse created elektro. what was elektro
Answer: a robot