Pistol shooting robot invented by Robert Wolfe.
Equipped with fast-draw invention, the robot shoots it out with a live gunner.
TV actor, Mike Connors, trying to outdraw the robot.
(via LIFE photo archives)
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Yes indeed, I admit there is a heavy dose of Americana in today’s posts. Soon we will be jetting back to the UK and on to Japan as well. In the interim I couldn’t resist posting these striking and somewhat surreal images of a gun-slinging robot on a Hollywood set captured by photographer J.R. Eyerman in June of 1960.
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