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Jan 1, 1495
First Humanoid Robot
Leonardo Di Vinci designed the first humanoid robot. The robot is a knight wearing traditional Italian-German armour.
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Romote Control
Nikolai Tesla demonstrates the first remote-controlled vehicle. The remote-control boat could be commanded to go, stop, turn left and right, turn its lights on and off, and even submerge.
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"Maria"
Fritz Lang's movie "Metropolis" is released. "Maria" the female robot in the film is the first robot to be projected on the silver screen. Maria is considered the precursor to Star War's C-3PO.
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Elektro
Elektro was a robot created for the 1939 New York World's Fair. He was a humanoid robot that would talk, move, count, recognize colors, and smoke cigarettes.
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The Term Robotics
Issac Asimov is generally credited with the popularization of the term "Robotics" which was first mentioned in his story "Runaround" in 1942. His most important contribution to the history of the robot is the creation of his “Laws of Robotics”. -
Elmer and Elsie
British robotics pioneer William Grey Walter creates autonomous machines called Elmer and Elsie that mimic life-like behaviour with very simple circuitry. These are the first “turtle” robots.
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First Robot Arm
George Devol and Joe Engleberger design the first programmable robot "arm". This development led to the development of the first industrial robot “UNIMATE” in 1961.
http://www.robots.com/education/industrial-history -
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Shakey
Created by the Stanford Research Institute, shakey is the first robot to know and react to its own actions.
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Genghis
A walking robot named Genghis is unveiled by the Mobile Robots Group at MIT. It becomes known for the way it walks, popularly referred to as the "Genghis gait".
http://www.moah.org/exhibits/archives/robotman/history/history.html -
Monsieur
Seiko Epson develops a micro robot called Monsieur, the world's smallest micro robot as certified by the Guinness Book of World Records.
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Roomba
Roomba is a robot designed by iRobot, a robotics company. It is a cleaning robot which uses sensor technology to vacuum.
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ASIMO
The world most humanoid robot. It is the first robot with the ability to walk dynamically, like a human being. It can mimic human movement almost perfectly.
http://realitypod.com/2010/06/top-10-modern-robots/5/
