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A chinese engineer built the first mechanical clock that was driven by water with an escapement which made the clock tick.
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Arab authors designed complex mechanical arrangements.
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Automated Carillons were seen in the Netherlands.
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This robot was built to look like an armored knight.The robot moved as if a real person was inside.
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The first real android was created by Hans Bullmann. These androids simulated people and some could play music.
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Jacques de Vaucanson created a mechanical duck that could flap its wings, eat, and digest grains. Each wing had over 400 moving parts.
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Joseph Jacquard built an automated loom that was controlled by punchcards. Punchcards were later used in computers.
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Charles Babbage designed this machine and is considered the father of the computer.
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Nikola Tesla built and demonstrated a romote contolled boat in front of people at Madison Square Garden
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The word robot was first used in a play where a man creates a robot to replace him and then the robot kills the man.
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ELEKTRO was a human-like robot that could walk, talk and smoke.
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Isaac Asimov first uses the word robotics to describe the technology and predicts a powerful robot industry in the future.
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The first programmable mechanism was a paint sprayer designed by Willard Pollard and Harold Roselund.
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W. Grey Walter designe two turlte robots that could find their way back to their charging stations.
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Hero of Alexandria created automata which was used for theater and religous purposes. They were also used to open gates on hydraulic principles.
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In 2004 NASA landed twin exploration rovers on Mars named Spirit and Opportunity. These rovers are the most advanced remote sensing robots ever created.
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BEAR is a battlefield extraction assist robot that helps remove wounded soldiers form battle.
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This is the most modern unmanned aerial vehicle in the world.It can recon 100,000 square kilometers of area in a day and send real time intel back to the base station anywhere on the globe.
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European Robotic Arm is the second intelligent arm to be installed on the international space station. This arm can move itself to different places.
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This is the first robot to walk dynamically like a human. It can walk forwards, backwards, turn while walking, ande even climb up and down stairs.
