Robotics Timeline

By dustin.cuevas5
  • Robot Boat

    Robot Boat

    Nikola Tesla builds and

    demonstrates a remote

    controlled robot boat
  • ASIMO

    ASIMO

    Honda builds Asimo
  • Playback Device

    Playback Device

    George Devol patents a

    playback device for controlling machines.
  • ELIZA

    ELIZA

    ELIZA is created at MIT
    by Joseph Weizenbaum.
  • Star Wars

    Star Wars

    Star Wars is released.

    George Lucas' movie about
    a universe governed
    by the force introduces watchers

    to R2-D2 and C-3PO. The movie
    creates the strongest image of a
    human future with robots since the 1960's
    and inspires a generation of researchers.
  • AIBO

    AIBO

    SONY releases the AIBO ERS-7
  • Dante

    Dante

    Dante an 8-legged walking

    robot developed at
    Carnegie Mellon University
  • Pathfinder Mission

    Pathfinder Mission

    Lands on mars
  • MINDSTORMS

    MINDSTORMS

    LEGO releases the

    MINDSTORMS Robotics
    Invention SystemTM 2.0
  • A Space Odyssey

    A Space Odyssey

    Stanley Kubrick makes

    Arthur C. Clark's, 2001:
    A Space Odyssey into a

    movie. It features HAL, an onboard

    computer that decides it doesn't need
    its human counterparts any longer.