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The first robot was a wooden pidgeon made by Archytas of Tarentum in Greece
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Around 1495, before he began work on the Last Supper, Leonardo Di Vinci designed the first humanoid robot.
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Nikolai Tesla demonstrates the first remote-controlled vehicle. The remote-control boat could be commanded to go, stop, turn left and right, turn its lights on and off, and even submerge. The public was not impressed. Press reports spoke of “mind control”, which didn't help Tesla's scientific reputation.
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The term "robot" was first used in a play called "R.U.R." or "Rossum's Universal Robots" by the Czech writer Karel Capek. The current definition of a Robot is- A contraption able to perform certain complex task on it’s own
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the first humanoid robot was created was built by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in its Mansfield, Ohio facility
It was Seven feet tall, weighing 265 pounds, humanoid in appearance, he could walk by voice command, speak about 700 words, smoke cigarettes, blow up balloons, and move his head and arms. -
Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov first used the word "robotics" to describe the technology of robots and predicted the rise of a powerful robot industry.
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Asimov wrote "Runaround", a story about robots which contained the "Three Laws of Robotics":
1st law: A robot may not injure a human, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2nd law: A robot must obey the orders it by human beings except where such orders would conflic with the First Law.
3rd law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict withe the First or Second Law -
George Devol and Joseph Engelberger formed the world's first robot company.
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The first industrial robot was online in a General Motors automobile factory in New Jersey. It was called UNIMATE.
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The robot prosthetic arm is controlled by the mind and has the same speed and reaction of a real arm. The robotic arm has been used by a quadriplegic woman and she was able to control the arm perfectly.
