Early mechanical manipulator - GIF

Mechanical manipulator from the 1940s.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...538#post151385
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...962#post125020

They still use these to extract radioactive isotopes after materials have been cooked in a reactor. Right here in my home state, Oak Ridge Tennessee.

Waldo's, based on a science fiction story! Life imitates art and not the first time.