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History of Robotics

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  • The Word Android Is Defined

    The Word Android Is Defined

    German philosopher and alchemist Albertus Magnus coins the word
    "android.”
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    Cites

    http://nieonline.com/tbtimes/downloads/supplements/robotics_timeline.pdf http://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/Software/Plankalkul.html
  • Computer Language Plankalkül Was Developed

    Computer Language Plankalkül Was Developed

    Plankalkül is a German computer language made by Konrad Zuse. It was the first complete high-level language.
  • Unimation, Inc. Is Formed

    Unimation, Inc. Is Formed

    George Devol and Joseph Engelberger form the world's first robot
    company: Unimation, Inc.
  • Fortran Was Developed

    Fortran Was Developed

    FORmulaTRANslation is the oldest programing language still in use today. It was created by John Backus to do high-level calculations. It still is used in government and aerospace
  • First Robotic Arm Is Installed

    First Robotic Arm Is Installed

    The first robotic arm was installed at the General Motors plant in Ewing Township, New Jersey
  • Educational LEGO Robots Are Made

    Educational LEGO Robots Are Made

    Lego teamed up with MIT to make educational robots for schools
  • HTML Was Developed

    HTML Was Developed

    A physicist Tim Berners-Lee developed HTML in 1980 to create electronic documents(web pages)
  • First Laptop is Invented

    First Laptop is Invented

    The first laptop, The Osborne 1, was invented by Osborne Computers. It sold 10,000 units/months
  • Robotic Arm Helps With Surgery

    Robotic Arm Helps With Surgery

    The PUMA 560 robotic surgical arm is used in the first documented
    use of a robot-assisted surgical procedure.
  • PHP Is Released

    PHP Is Released

    Rasmus Lerdorf developed PHP which is the language that Facebook uses as well as 20 million other websites
  • Sojourner lands on Mars

    Sojourner lands on Mars

    The free ranging robot Sojourner sends back 2.3 billion bits of information about Mars
  • The Roomba Is Released

    The Roomba Is Released

    IRobot releases a automatic robotic vacuum called the Roomba(The First Domestic Robot
  • The First IPhone Was Released

    The First IPhone Was Released

    The first IPhone was released with IOS by Steve Jobs in 2007 using Safari as a web browser
  • Google Go is Developed

    Google Go is Developed

    3 Google employees created Google Go to "Combine the ease of programing[...] with the efficiency and safety of a statically typed compiled language."
  • Robots Help Make Space Probes

    Robots Help Make Space Probes

    Robot arms are used on the Viking 1 and 2 space probes