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http://www.thocp.net/reference/robotics/robotics.htmlSometime during the turn of the first Millienium, brilliant Chinese engineers and monks used the power of water to create mechanismes that could keep at clock ticking. This was one of the earliest examples of none human powered machines.
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http://www.thocp.net/reference/robotics/robotics.htmlAround the year 1000, Hero of Alexandria created and detailed a few automata that were apparently created for religous or theatrical purposes. There were also automata that were created to open gates using hydraulics.
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http://www.thocp.net/reference/robotics/robotics.htmlArab thinker, Al-Jazari, wrote Automata, which contained many writings and diagrams about complex machinery.
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http://www.essentialvermeer.com/music/carillon/carillon_d.html
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In 1495, Leonardo started work on a robotic suit of arms. This robot was created to model a few human motions such as waving sitting and moving its jaws.
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http://www.thocp.net/reference/robotics/robotics.htmlJacques de Vaucanson created 3 different automatons. Each one increased in complexity. The first played flute. The second plyed flute, drums and the tambourine. And the last and most famous, was a very complex duck that walked, quacked, and ate.
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http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_jacquard.htmJoseph Jacquard, son of a silk weaver created an automated loom that functioned using punch cards not unlike early computers. This allowed textiles to get ride of weavers.
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http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/ROV/history.htmlAuthor Mary Shelley's book Frankenstein was the first of it's time about artifical intellengence. This book created a huge fear around the creating of robots's particularly in artifical intellengence.
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http://www.kerryr.net/pioneers/babbage.htmCharles Babbage showed the prototype of his "difference engine" which used the same punch card technique as Joseph Jacquard's automated weaver. This is considered the first computer.
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In 1898, http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ins/lab_remotec.html wanted to be able to show of his new invention of radio. So he created a boat that would recieve radio signals that he could control wirelessly.
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American author Issac Asimov wrote the book http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/ROV/history.html which contains his Three Laws of Robotics. They are:
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http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/ROV/history.htmlGeneral Moters became the first industry to use robot help in 1961. The Unimate was given the task of transporting dye castings, which was dangerous work for people, but easy enough for the robot.
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The release of Starwars created a new love for space and Robots. R2-D2 and C3P0 are an inseperable duo of robots that each have there own abilities. R2-D2:Walking toolbox; C3P0: Walking translator. Source: Starwars IV(The movie)
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http://www.stanford.edu/~learnest/cart.htmIn 1979, students at Stanford successfully tested a robotic rover in a chair filled room that could search it's surroundings, compute a path free of obsticals and travel on that path.
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http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/Fall2000/LegoMindstorms.pdfIn 1998, Lego released a new product of Mindstorm products that would eventually evolve into the Lego Mindstorm NXT robot. The early Mindstorm included motors, sensors and the RCX control brick.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343818/iRobot is a 2004 Will Smith movie that takes place in the year 2035. A crime has been commited that could have been carried out by a robot and it is up to Will to find out how.
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http://realitypod.com/2010/06/top-10-modern-robots/In 2004, NASA's Spirit and Opportunity landed on the surface of Mars in order learn more about the planet. The rovers were comepletely solar powered and didn't require any human control.
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http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_bigdog.htmlThe Boston Dynamics: BigDog is a highly advanced robotic quadrapod with the ability to move and function even in harsh or unstable ground. It seems as if it would have great military use as a cargo carrier.
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http://topio.tosy.com/history.shtmlThe Topio Ping Pong Playing Robot is a highly advanced robot that not only has 39 degrees of freedom, but its own highly developed learning system that allows it to become better overtime.
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http://www.irobot.com/sp.cfm?pageid=203
The iRobot started selling the Roomba in 2011, the same year that its total sales hit 6 mil. worldwide. iRobot proves that a simple home robot is not only possible, but profitable.
