Well/Then

is her left leg or right leg in front?

“Alpha” was a female robot built by Richard May and displayed at the London Radio Exposition of 1932. She got up, saluted people, read from the newspaper (this part was prerecorded by a voice actor), and at one point, even fired a gun. The robot actually could move on its own and was not a puppet, but preprogrammed for every show.

Alpha frequently made it to the covers of magazines in the early 1930s.

However, Alpha had a tendency to go wrong and malfunction in ways that hurt people. For instance, on several occasions, her arms came down at the wrong time and hit her creator on the head seriously. In fairness, some of that wasn’t her fault. For instance, one injury attributed to the robot came when, instead of getting a gun loaded with blanks, the robot was accidentally given one with live ammo to shoot into the crowd.