I actually mentioned Elektro the robot at some point in the distant past on here; it honestly wasn't an inspired post, so I'll let it remain anonymous.
Elektro was rather hilarious, because he was designed to do several rather... oddball things, such as inflating balloons.
The other major purpose of the mouthpiece? Smoking.
Yes, probably the most distinctive feature of this "technological marvel"* was being a bad role model.
No references to retro robots are truly complete without mentioning Elektro. Elektro, and this guy.
Truly, he is the pinnacle of robot design.**
-Signing off.
*Technically, he was only a remote-controlled dummy, and while he inspired at least some comic book robots and helped usher in the idea of robots being a potential part of society, he was really just a relatively complicated remotely controlled device that is exceeded in complexity by numerous modern children's toys, e.g. anything made by WowWee-and heck, more impressive similar feats of engineering were achieved long before then.
**Obviously, I'm being facetious, but I do love that little guy.
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