ROBOT THAT TALKS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10752, 24 November 1928, Page 11

ROBOT THAT TALKS

TO OPEN EXHIBITION IN LONDON. MEASURED FOR A SUIT. IAINDON, Oct. 25. A robot, created in an engineering shop •'in the heart of Surrey to perform the action of si human being, is to take .its place in public life is London. So confident are its creators that it wilt realise their highest expectations that it to open an exhibition organised by the 'Model Engineer at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Westminster, on September 15. It is not just ii collection of wires and cleverly joined steel, but the actual figure of a man, more lifelike rhan the cleverest- waxwork. It. nows, talks, shakes hands, and even answers questions put to it without pre-arrangement,

The story of its creation is a remarkable one

“It was the idea of a journalist and iv motor engineer,” said Mr. Rercival Marshall, editor of the Model Engineer, to a. reporter. MY. Marshall added:'

The robot which is to open the exhibition will rise from its scat, how to the audience, deliver a speech actually it will bo the voice of a person speaking through wireless mechanism concealed in the throat of the robot—and will answer any questions that may bo addressed to it by members of the audience.

MAKING A METAL HEAD. The engineer who has constructed the human machine is Mr. A. H. Kclfell, of Gomshall, near Dorking. “It is almost finished,'” said one of Mr. Reffell’s assistants, “and i> now being measured for its clothes, for it will be attired .like any man. We are not quite satisfied with the movement of its lips and we are trying to make a metal head for •him' in time for the exhibition. If that cannot be done, then we. shall nave to use the. wax head which it is now wearing.”