Progress is being made to put Elektro, the 1930s-era robot created at the Westinghouse Plant in Mansfield, back together with some exciting new abilities. Mansfield brothers John Weeks and Lowell ...

MANSFIELD, OH - Long before "Alexa" or "Siri," artificial intelligence had another big name that has since been forgotten to time. Elektro, the Westinghouse robot, was an early pioneer in home ...

Elektro, a robot built in the late 1930s at the Westinghouse Plant in Mansfield, has been returned to the Weeks family. The robot will be displayed at the North Central Ohio Industrial Museum inside ...

Oct 23 (Reuters) - Industrial technologies company Fortive Corporation (FTV.N), opens new tab on Monday said that it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire German manufacturer EA ...

Long before C-3PO and Wall-e, there was Elektro, a smoking, talking, and walking robot that wowed the World's Fair in 1939. Meet the seminal robot that has been rescued from the scrap heap of time.

The Mansfield Memorial Museum is hard at work preserving just one piece of our rich history: Westinghouse Electric Company’s contribution to the nation’s engineering professionals and movie industry.

Before IBM's Watson and Deep Blue, there was another celebrity robot: Elektro. The first robot introduced to Americans, Elektro was the 7-foot-tall man who greeted millions of visitors who streamed ...

In a last-minute move to put off doing laundry and to extend time spent with my unexpected brunch companion, I set off for Washington D.C.'s National Building Museum on Saturday morning to see an ...

WHEN Jack Weeks first saw the racy comedy Sex Kittens Go To College in the 1960s, he was taken aback to see his childhood friend in a leading role. More surprising, perhaps, is the fact that his buddy ...