Robot Hall of Fame

http://www.robothalloffame.org

Nam June Paik early robot

http://cyberneticzoo.com Here's a link to a cool website with lots of early robotics stuff and artists like Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik, the latter of whom I knew for his tv sculptures but not this awesome robot.

exoskeleton

This technology developed to aid paraplegics' mobility, has been anticipated by Stelarc's much earlier experiments of the same name. In the case of the artist he was promoting hybridity for the sake of hybridity, and the application featured here is restoration of upright mobility.