When May inquired what the automaton liked to eat, it responded with a minute-long discourse on the virtues of toast made with Macy's automatic electric toaster. Then Impresario May asked Alpha a question:įrom the robot's interior a cavernous Cockney voice responded:Ī dozen other questions and answers followed, some elaborately facetious. When commanded, the robot lowered its arm, raised the other, lowered it, turned its head from side to side, opened and closed its prognathous jaw, sat down. "Raise your right arm." Alpha gave a tremendous Nazi salute. Pivoting at knees and waist, it slowly stood up. Said the crisp British voice of Professor May: "Wake up!" Professor May, a dapper, blond, beak-nosed man in his middle thirties, signaled his assistant who drew a curtain behind the stage, revealing the massive control cabinets to which the robot was wired.
In one mailed fist Alpha clutched a revolver. The creature had a great sullen slit of a mouth, vast protuberant eyes, shaggy curls of rolled metal. Encased from head to foot in chromium-plated steel armor, Alpha sat on a specially constructed dais with its cumbrous feet securely bolted to the floor, stared impassively over the knot of newshawks and store officials waiting for the first demonstration. tall, the robot was brought to Manhattan by its owner-inventor-impresario, Professor Harry May of London, and installed on the fifth floor of R.
One of the most ingenious automatons ever contrived by man, a grim and gleaming monster 6 ft.
Last week Alpha, the robot, made its first public appearance in the U. It also has many names, including The ROBOTER, ALPHA, Astra*, Mary Ann, Eric, Albi/Algi. From large, round, eyes with lamps in them and large ears with microphones, to a female form with curly hair breasts on the chest plate, and then one with insulators on its head. This Robot has had several guises over the years.
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