Collection of papers, operating manuals and component specifications for the maintenance and operation of ROSA BOSOM, Radio Operated Simulated Actress, by Bruce Lacey, 1965.

ROSA BOSOM was constructed by Bruce Lacey, whose National Service with the RAF gave him a thorough grounding in electronics and radio technology which set him up for a long career in performance art using ROSA, among other robots. ROSA was displayed in Jasia Reichardt’s landmark 1968 ‘Cybernetic Serendipity’ exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, and also performed at events elsewhere, from Bruce's wedding to his second wife, to the Alternative Miss World exhibition in 1985. ROSA exemplifies an approach to robots which takes them outside the formal scientific laboratory into the wider, unpredictable world inhabited by humans.