VSR-2: Talos FG as a high school science fair project, however, the research into affordable humanoid robotics began as far back as 2005 in his middle school years and included his former partner, Anthony Winterton. The prefix 'VSR-2' is an acroname meaning Variable Sequenced Robot - 2nd Model. The name 'Talos' originated in Greek mythology, and was a giant man of bronze who protected Europa in Crete from pirates and invaders by circling the island's shores three times daily while guarding it. It is sometimes referred to as history's first recorded concept of a humanoid robot. 'FG' is another acroname meaning Final Generation,
A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World trading goods from Europe for goods from various places in the "southern ocean", the Atlantic, Pacific, and other seas circling the southern hemisphere. Once the journey was over, sailor Edward Cooke (not "the" Captain Cooke) wrote up an account, in two volumes, that was printed the next year. In it were updated maps, including of the Amazon River, and "An Account is given of Mr. Alexander Selkirk", about a man who had been marooned on the uninhabited island of "Más a Tierra", which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966, for four years and it covered his manner of living