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A Buddhist monk created a mechanical clock that ran of water and had an escapement that made it tick
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Al Jazari wrote the book, Automata. This book illustrates the art of technology and shows the comparison of their technology to western technology
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Automated carillons begin to appear in the Netherlands.
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Leonardo DaVinchi built a device that appears as an armored knight. It would move as if someone were really inside the armor. People often built these for royal amusement.
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scholar Johann Müller, created the iron fly that ran of steam power.
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Englishman John Dee designed a wooden beetle that could actually fly
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Rabbi Loew of Prague is said to have invented the Golem, a clay man brought to life.
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Joseph Jacquard builds an automated loom that is controlled with punched cards. Punch cards are later used as an input method for some of the 20th centuries earliest computers.
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Nikola Tesla builds a remote controlled robot boat at Madison Square Garden in 1898.
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Grey Walters creates a robot and dubbs it Elsie the Tortoise
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Asimov writes a story about robots, Runaround, which contains the "Three laws of robotics". these are the laws that robots must abide by.
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The first industrial robot was online in a GM factory in New Jersey.
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The octopus-like Tentacle arm was develpoed by Marvin Minsky.
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The Stanford Arm was the first electrically powered, computer-controlled robot arm.
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Shakey was introduced as the first mobile robot controlled by artificial intellence. It was produced by SRI International.
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Hero of Alexandria created automatas for religious purposes. it opened the gates of hydraulid principles.
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this human robot can move talk and even make facial expressions. Used to read to children.
http://weburbanist.com/2008/11/18/10-of-the-worlds-weirdest-craziest-and-most-useful-robots/ -
Robotic bartender hits the streets of Japan.
http://weburbanist.com/2008/11/18/10-of-the-worlds-weirdest-craziest-and-most-useful-robots/ -
the cochroach controlled robot is a robot driven by a cochroach
http://weburbanist.com/2008/11/18/10-of-the-worlds-weirdest-craziest-and-most-useful-robots/ -
the rat brain powered robot is used by a rat brain so that the robot can have power to properly run.
http://weburbanist.com/2008/11/18/10-of-the-worlds-weirdest-craziest-and-most-useful-robots/
