Robotics History

Mechanical duck that was able to eat, flap its wings, and excrete

1738

Mechanical duck is able to flap its wings like an animal duck

Nikola Tesla demonstrates first radio-controlled vessel.

1898

Tesla creates a radio controlled vessel or in other words a boat that is controlled remotely with a controller . (Teleautomaton)

First fictional automatons called "Robots" appear in the play R.U.R

1921

The first model of robots is created

Humanoid robot exhibited at the 1939 and 1940 World's Fairs

1939

Humanoid Robot called Elektro is created

First general-purpose digital computer

1951

A computer with a lot of information in it is created neat WW2

First commercial robot, from the Unimation company

1956

First robot that is put to sale

First full-scale humanoid intelligent robot and first android. Its limb control system allowed it to walk with the lower limbs, and to grip and transport objects with hands, using tactile sensors

1967

First android created

First industrial robot with six electromechanically driven axe

1973

First industrial robot is created with 6 electromechanic axes

The world's first microcomputer controlled electric industrial robot, IRB 6 from ASEA, was delivered to a small mechanical engineering company in southern Sweden. The design of this robot had been patented already 1972.

1974

First microcomputer in Sweden

Programmable universal manipulation arm, a Unimation product

1975

First manipulative arm

First object-level robot programming language, allowing robots to handle variations in object position, shape, and sensor noise

1978

Robot moved by C++ programming language

Robot of the 21st century

2018

Best robot to this day and age