#securitrons

Some familiar faces.

The robot pictured is the Mobot Mark II, making it's debut in 1961. It was created by the Hughes Aircraft Company, a company founded by Howard Hughes. And then it dawned on me…Howard Hughes, the man that Mr. House was based on? Holy shit! No wonder it looked familiar! The arms and claws reminded me of a Securitron!

I’m almost sure that the Fallout design team took at look Hughes's robots and incorporated some design elements from his past inventions. Some other similarities between the Mobots and Securitrons:

Both moved around on wheels

Both had the label of Mark I and Mark II models/upgrades

Both could be operated remotely (exclusively in the Mobots' case and with Securitrons being directed by Mr. House)

TV monitors on the Securitrons might be inspired by the TV signals that were used to operate the Mobots remotely, the TV cameras that the Mobot used to "see" or maybe by the TV/computer monitors that were used by remote operators.

And while they were never used as weapons, the Mobots were invented to perform jobs too dangerous for humans (such as handling radioactive material), with the hope that one day, they would be sent into space!

Also apparently their “touch” was quite gentle. So take that as you will Yes Man/Victor fans. :)

I'll put more pictures of the Mobot under the cut, if you're curious! (Apparently it was dexterous enough to paint fingernails and brush the model's hair, so I like to think Securitrons are capable of doing that too):

on her thumb digit, you can see that indent where the halves of the digit connect 2 the middle joint. right underneath it, facing the barrel in her palm, you can actually see the claw portion of the digit—her distal phalanx, so 2 speak—folded inwards against the rest of the digit (securitrons only have two parts that make up a digit, so that will be her proximal phalanx since she doesnt really have anything that could act as a middle phalanx equivalent). so it looks like a securitron’s thumb isnt just a shortened digit—its specifically a normal digit with the distal phalanx folded in so the finger acts better as a thumb!