ELEKTRO: The World's First Robot Turns 75 CR Rae - The Mexico Ledger
go to original August 8, 2013

Elektro the Robot at the 1939 New York World's Fair (thehistoricalarchive)

It is told that ELEKTRO has some bad habits. He is a shameless flirt and is a smoker. He was built by the Mansfield based Westinghouse Electric Corp. and was created to transform American homes. He is a walking, talking, cigarette smoking robot that made his debut at the 1939 New York's World's Fair.

He is made of aluminum and it was anticipated by Westinghouse that he would help homemakers with their daily chores by taking over the laundry, cooking and cleaning.

... ELEKTRO disappeared in 1960. Scott Schaut Director of the Mansfield Memorial Museum teamed up the son of one of the creators of the robot with a mission to find and restore the smoking robot. Now ELEKTRO is found at the museum surrounded by Westinghouse memorabilia and mementos from his younger days.

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