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History of AI

By Keerti

  • Publishing Gulliver's travels

    Publishing Gulliver's travels
    Jonathan Swift publishes Gulliver's travels featuring an engine and a machine on an island. This proposed the first ideas of an AI

  • World's first radio controlled vessel

    World's first radio controlled vessel
    Nikola Tesla makes the demonstration of the world's first radio controlled vessel at an electrical exhibition.

  • Rossum’s Universal Robots (R.U.R.)

    Rossum’s Universal Robots (R.U.R.)
    In 1920, Czech writer Karel Čapek published a science fiction play named Rossum’s Universal Robots, also better known as R.U.R. This play introduced the word robot. R.U.R. deals about a factory, which creates artificial people named as robots.

  • First driver less radio controlled car is released

    First driver less radio controlled car is released
    Houdina Radio Control releases a radio-controlled driver less car, travelling the streets of New York City.

  • First science-fiction film is released

    First science-fiction film is released
    The science-fiction film Metropolis is released. It features a robot double of a peasant girl, Maria, which unleashes chaos in Berlin of 2026.

  • Alan Turing publishes “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”

    Alan Turing publishes “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”
    Alan Turing publishes “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” in which he proposes “the imitation game” which was later known as the “Turing Test.”

  • First artificial neural network

    First artificial neural network
    Marvin Minsky built the first artificial neural network, SNARC in 1951

  • Arthur Samuel develops the first computer checkers-playing program

    Arthur Samuel develops the first computer checkers-playing program
    Arthur Samuel develops the first computer checkers-playing program and the first computer program to learn on its own.

  • Herbert Simon and Allen Newell develop the first artificial intelligence program

    Herbert Simon and Allen Newell develop the first artificial intelligence program
    Herbert Simon and Allen Newell develop the Logic Theorist, the first artificial intelligence program.

  • The term “artificial intelligence” is coined

    The term “artificial intelligence” is coined
    The term "artificial intelligence" is coined by John McCarthy.

  • John McCarthy develops programming language Lisp

    John McCarthy develops programming language Lisp
    John McCarthy develops programming language Lisp which later becomes the most popular programming language used in artificial intelligence research.

  • The first industrial robot, Unimate is invented and operated

    The first industrial robot, Unimate is invented and operated
    The first industrial robot, Unimate, starts working on an assembly line in a General Motors plant in New Jersey.

  • Introduction of VR

    Introduction of VR
    Jaron Lanier's VPL Research Inc. sells the first VR glasses and gloves

  • First series of Humanoid robots

    First series of Humanoid robots
    Honda created the first series of humanoid robots that walk on two feet named E0

  • iRobot Corporation is founded

    iRobot Corporation is founded
    iRobot Corporation which produces military and domestic robots is founded

  • Stanley Robot drives automatically

    Stanley Robot drives automatically
    Stanley Robot drives automatically for 131 miles

  • Introduction of Watson

    Introduction of Watson
    IBM introduces Watson, a question-answering computer system

  • Introduction of Siri

    Introduction of Siri
    Siri, a virtual assistant is introduced by Apple Inc.

  • Drone Delivery

    Drone Delivery
    Amazon makes first drone delivery in UK

  • L'Oreal UV Sense Patch

    L'Oreal UV Sense Patch
    L'Oreal's UV Sense Patch measures the amount of exposure to sunlight, thus limiting the risk of skin cancer. It is less than two millimeters thick and battery-free.