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Elektro is the nickname of a robot built by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in its Mansfield Ohio facility between 1937 and 1939. Seven feet tall (2.1 m) weighing 265 pounds (120.2 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.