Robotics history

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  • Computer that can solve 29 problems

    Atanasoff and Clifford Berry invented a computer that can solve 29 equations.

  • Invention of the Modem

    Developed in 1949 for transmitting radar signals by Jack Harrington’s group at the Air Force Cambridge Research Center near Boston, the modem modulates digital data into sounds, and demodulates received sounds into digital data.

  • computer language

    Grace Hopper invented the first computer language

  • Computer chip

    Jack Kilby invented the computer chip.

  • Industrial Robot

    One of the first programmable industrial robots was made in North America

  • Robotics Institute

    Carnegie Mellon establishes the Robotics Institute

  • Robot with vision sytem

    SRI built a robot with a vision system called Shakey

  • Stanford Arm

    Victor Scheinman created the first successful electrically powered, computer controlled robot arm called the Stanford Arm.

  • Walking Truck

    The first manually controlled walking truck robot was made by R. Mosher

  • Computer controlled robot

    The first computer controlled robot was invented by Mcgee.

  • WAP 1

    WAP 1 became the first biped robot and was designed by Ichiro Kato. Air bags connected to the frame were used to stimulate artificial muscles.

  • Six legged walking vehicle

    V.S Gurfinkel, A. Schneider, E.V. Gurfinkel and colleagues at the department of motion control at the Russian Academy of Science created the first six legged walking vehicle.

  • Telex messaging

    Telex messaging network comes online.