image creditOriginally introduced in 1964, the Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots toy remains a popular toy today, but they could've taken some advice from those who were dreaming up fighting robots in the 1930s. Who would've thought that the 1930s was the Golden Age of boxing robots?
In the April, 1934, issue of Modern Mechanix and Inventions the 'mechanical robot' goes toe-to-toe with boxing legend Jack Dempsey. In the article Dempsey relays a conversation he had with a friend about what it would be like to fight a robot. According to Dempsey - who says he could tear one to pieces 'bolt by bold and scatter its cogs all over the canvas' - the main deficiency of a boxing robot would be its lack of brains.
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