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Leonardo DaVinci built a mechanized robot to look and move like a knight. It is designed to give the impression that there is a real knight inside. This never had any practical purposes and was built mostly to amuse royalty.
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Jacques de Vaucanson built a robot that could do imitate movements of a duck.
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Swiss inventors Pierre and Henri Jacquet-Droz created a robotic chiled called L'Ecrivain. It used a mechanical brain to write messages that could go up to 40 characters.
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Elektro was a robot created for the 1939 New York World's Fair. He was a humanoid robot that would talk, move, count, recognize colors, and smoke cigarettes.
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Created by the Stanford Research Institute, shakey is the first robot to know and react to its own actions. This gives it the ability to not need a full set of instructions to complete a task. It uses reasoning to accomplish a simple goal.
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Richard Greenblatt created a computer program with the ability to play chess. He created it in order to prove to Hurbert Dreyfus that a comoputer could beat him in a game of chess. And the program succeeded in its goal.
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Roomba is a robot designed by iRobot, a robotics company. It is a cleaning robot which uses sensor technology to vacuum. They avoid obstacles and can detect dirty spots on floors.
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BIGDOG was created by Boston Dynamics as an all-terrain robot. It moves in the fashion that a real dog would. It can manuver over most terrains and it has advanced sensors for detecting and observing the enviornment.
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A robot made by NASA and sent to Mars. It is a super advanced robot. It even has a built-in labatory.
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A work inprogress, the MorphHex is a transforming robot designed by Kåre Halvorsen, in Norway. It has the ability to transform into a ball or to walk around almost like a beetle.
