John Weeks said his grandfather John Weeks Sr., an engineer at Westinghouse helped build the robot with Westinghouse employee ...

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 fate of Mansfield's world-famous robot Elektro remains in limbo following the closure of the Mansfield Memorial Museum on July 4. Is Elektro going to the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan or was ...

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 ...

Elektro, a robot built by Westinghouse in 1937, was a star at the World's Fair in 1939-40. Photo: Courtesy of Scott Schaut/Mansfield Memorial Museum Photo: Scott Schaut/Mansfield Memorial Museum ...

New Scientist has a neat story about Elektro, arguably the first celebrity robot, and Jack Weeks, who is attempting to rebuild the golden humanoid that sat in the basement of his childhood home during ...