The foot construction amazed me, it was a box of 1/2inch thick aluminium with a huge lead acid battery in the middle, I don't think there was ever any chance of Gygan falling over! Unfortunately I couldn't get near enough to see the motor and drive train. I saw Gygan in about 1963, billed as Mr Moto, outside a Ford dealership in Leeds where it was used as a promotional attraction, it was not working and under repair with one foot taken off. Jasia Reichardt, Robots: Fact, Fiction + Prediction, Thames & Hudson, 1978įrames from Pathe News' GENTLE GIANT when Gygan was demonstrated at The British Food Fair at Olympia.įrames 7,8,9 show Senor Fiorito making adjustments. ![]() Gygan at the 35th Milan sample fair in 1957.
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