Elektro

Barnett, Jack Weeks Sr., Harold Gorsuch,[1] and other engineers at the Westinghouse Electric Corporation's Mansfield, Ohio, facility between 1937 and 1938.

Seven feet tall (2.1 m), weighing 265 pounds (120 kg), humanoid in appearance, he could walk by voice command, speak about 700 words (using a 78-rpm record player), smoke cigarettes, blow up balloons, and move his head and arms.

Elektro's body consisted of a steel gear, cam and motor skeleton covered by an aluminum skin.

[2] Elektro toured North America in 1950 in promotional appearances for Westinghouse, and was displayed at Pacific Ocean Park in Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California, "which was in operation from 1958 to 1967, as part of the House of Tomorrow exhibit.

[5] Elektro is currently the subject of a property dispute by Weeks' family, Schaut's heirs and the Mansfield Memorial Museum.