Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 15, 2020

At least the robot can’t get lung cancer. How about designing duplicates of that robot since it has fingers and programming it to do something really useful which would be shaving and cutting hair?

The eyes disappear as they grow?

Take care and may God bless.

gee… I wonder how tasty is the Mexican blind cavefish in a taco (or any other fish recipe)

According to Wikipedia, Elektro could also blow up balloons and distinguish between red and green. He had a 700 word vocabulary using a 78-RPM record player.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektro

ϟ ϟ That makes five times I’ve swept up my own ashes. ϟ ϟ

Local supermarket robot here actually does something useful like checking the floors for spills, usually in the produce dept.

Lady with rambunctious child was chatting on phone: “That thing seems to be following me around”.

Electro is one of two claims to fame of my hometown of Mansfield, Ohio where he was made. You can see him today at our Mansfield Museum. The other claim is the Shawshank Prison.

1939 was much more advanced, then we are today. I think they had flying carriages!

So that’s where SNL got the idea for a weed-smoking robot.

Janitors union put him out of business for sweeping floors.

I remember reading about Elektro in 4th grade. He had a robot dog companion that met his fate running into traffic. :(

Correction to previous question. The fish disappear as they grow and grow?