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issac asimov created the three laws
Isaac Asimov wrote a science fiction book called I, Robot in
1950. It contained three laws of robotics that may still be relevant
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First programming language
History of programming languagesIn the 1950s the first three modern programming languages whose descendants are still in widespread use today were designed: FORTRAN, the "FORmula TRANslator", invented by John W. Backus et al.;
LISP, the "LISt Processor", invented by John McCarthy et al.;
COBOL, the COmmon Business Oriented Language, created by the Short Range Committee, heavily influenced by Grace Hopper. -
Artificial Intelligence term first used
The term artificial intelligence was first used at a conference in
Dartmouth, USA in 1956. The conference was organised by John
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First industrial robot
industrial robot historyThe first industrial robot was online in a General Motors automobile factory in New Jersey. It was Devol and Engelberger's UNIMATE. It performed spot welding and extracted die castings. -
SRI robort
Robot Timeline- Robotic HistoryShakey was introduced as the first mobile robot controlled by artificial intelligence. SRI International in California produced this small box on wheels that used memory to solve problems and navigate. At Stanford University a robot arm is developed which becomes a standard for research projects. The arm is electrically powered and becomes known as the Stanford Arm. -
expert systems
expert systems provide information and solve problems that would otherwise require an expert in that field to solve -
PROLOG
PROLOG was developed in 1970 at
the University of Marseille in France by Alain Colmerauer and
Philippe Roussel. The decision by Japanese computer designers
to work with PROLOG instead of LISP made it very popular.Many of the features that were once unique to PROLOG are
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First robocup soccer
Robocup The aim is to develop autonomous soccer robots with the intention of promoting research and education in the field of artificial intelligence -
Robot eye
neatoramaThe Robot Eye was introduced in the year 1990The human eye can rotate 500 degrees per second. Now a new robot eye is able to meet and exceed that ability by moving 2,500 degrees per second. -
interactive robot pets
Brief History of Artificial IntelligenceInteractive robot pets (a.k.a. "smart toys") become commercially
available
