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,
Kingittorsuaq Island stone is now located at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. Kingittorsuaq Island Kingittorsuaq Island (old spelling: "Kingigtorssuaq") is a small, uninhabited island in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is a small island in the southern part of the Upernavik Archipelago, located on the southwestern shores of Upernavik Icefjord, near the mouth of the latter where it opens into Baffin Bay. The name of the island means ""a large protruding rock"" in the Greenlandic language. The Kingittorsuaq runestone (old spelling: "Kingigtorssuaq runestone") dating from the Middle Ages was found in 1824 on the highest point of the