ROBOTER 700 - AUGUST KNOCH o.H.G - WEST GERMANY

Silver grey plastic wind up robot. The motor is a wind-up, the body, arms and legs were made in plastic. Originally intended to be a kit robot, designed so children could take it apart. The antenna has a unique shape and is fragile. Box marked DBGM. The only action is walking, and it is fairly crude. Made by August Knoch in Coburg, near the old frontier to East Germany.

Two slight variations of design are known. The bottom left example has numbers molded around the chest dials.

Existing examples were made for display at the 1960 Toy Fair in Nürnberg. The robot was not a success, being too expensive and too complex. The designer, George Messner, made only a small number of robots. The project was abandoned in 1964.