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- A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
- A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
- A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
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During the 1950s, the first three programming languages were designed:
* FORTRAN (1955), the "FORmula TRANslator", by John Backus.
* LISP (1958), the "LISt Processor", by John McCarthy
* COBOL,(1959) the COmmon Business Oriented Language, Short Range Committee -
The term AI was first used by John McCarthy an American computer scientist in the year 1956. John defines AI as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines."
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The first industrial robot was located at General Motors automobile factory in New Jersey. It performed spot welding and extracted die castings.
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The Artificial Intelligence Center at the Stanford Research Institute International created a mobile robot system nicknamed 'Shakey'. Shakey was created for problem solving.
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An expert system is a computer system that imitates the decision-making ability of a human expert. The first expert systems were created in the 1970s and were among the first truly successful forms of AI software.
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Prolog is a general purpose logic programming language related to artificial intelligence. The language was created by Alain Colmerauer and the first Prolog system was developed in 1972 by Colmerauer with Philippe Roussel.
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The Robot Eye was introduced in the year 1990. The human eye can rotate at 500 degrees per second but now a new robot eye is able exceed that ability by moving 2,500 degrees per second.
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RoboCup is a robotics competition which was founded in 1997. The purpose was to develop autonomous soccer robots with the intention of promoting research and education in the field of artificial intelligence.
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The First Interactive Pet was created in the year 2000. The manufacturing company was Sony, they named it AIBO, standing up for Artificial Intelligence roBOt.