User:Bill Bakaleinikoff

After serving in the United States Marines, William (Bill) Bakaleinikoff started his professional career in the aerospace industries (North American Aviation, TRW, Honeywell, the Apollo Program). He was also involved in the music recording business in Hollywood.

Mr. Bakaleinkoff created an advertising agency to help promote America's space program. Mr. Bakaleinkoff moved to Northern California in the early seventies and combined his advertising agency with his own television production company. Published a book for Northern California called “Sit Where You Want”, a seating guide to all of Northern California’s main sports and entertainment venues (Bakaleinikoff & Diamond Publishers; with business partner Michael Diamond).

Bakaleinikoff Productions merged with Michael Diamond Productions and produced television commercials and television pilots. Bakaleinikoff & Diamond Productions promoted Advanced Robotics as a client in the late seventies then became their in-house agency. Advanced Robotics was one of the first pioneers in American robotics concentrating on medical, ocean and space exploration, police & fire rescue, bomb disposal, military, industrial, and entertainment. Advanced Robotics appeared on many television shows including Mork & Mindy, Dinah Shore Show, and That's Incredible, along with dozens of network and cable news shows. Advanced Robotics also built the Omni Robot for Omni Magazine.

Gene Beley (Bill Bakaleinikoff’s robotic mentor), one of the first robotic pioneers, left Advanced Robotics to devote more time to his own very successful company, Android Amusement. Android Amusement became the premiere trade-show robot manufacturer and created robots for large corporations such as Pepsi Cola, and wealthy individuals such as Hugh Hefner (for his Playboy mansion ). Gene's robots have also appeared on many television shows such as Hill Street Blues.

In the early eighties Mr. Bakaleinikoff created Superior Robotics of America and continued pursuing those robotic futures. In the early nineties Superior Robotics of America created Star Robots U.S.A. Entertainment (home and entertainment robots). SRA (Superior Robotics of America) created Robot Redford in the early eighties; he became one of the most successful show robots in the world. Robot Redford gave the first major college commencement speech at Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland in June of 1983. The commencement speech gained world-wide publicity and brought television and print media news people from most major countries around the world.

William (Bill) Bakaleinikoff has been featured in stories in the New York Times, Time and Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, Info-World (1982)and on television with Dan Rather on CBS News, Tom Brokaw on NBC, Ted Koppel on Nightline, and dozens of television and newspapers from around the world for over twenty years. Mr. Bakaleinikoff has also been featured in books such as Robotics, a user-friendly introduction‎ - Ernest L. Hall, Bettie C. Hall - Technology & Engineering - 1985 - 254 pages and Robots, machines in man's image‎ -Isaac Asimov, Karen A. Frenkel - 1985 -

William (Bill) Bakaleinikoff continued running both companies until the year 2000 when Mr. Bakaleinikoff retired to devote more of his time on the lecture circuit and pursue his hobbies with his wife Ellen, which include surfing, writing, photography and collecting diecast model cars. He also has been a moderator for Diecast.org on the 1/18 Forum since 2001 using the pen name of Paul Theriot.