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Tech history project

By Willliam116

  • Project Whirlwind begins

    originally contracted by the Navy but they lost interest, later being integrated into the SAGE air defense network by the Air force

  • I, Robot is published

    Isaac Asimov publishes "I, Robot" stating his three laws of robotics

  • Robby the Robot

    Robby the Robot appears in MGM's movie " Forbidden Planet"

  • Shaky the Robot

    SRI international's Shaky the Robot is the first robot to run off of artificial intelligence

  • Wang 2200

    The Wang 2200 used a built-in CRT, cassette tape for storage, and ran the programming language BASIC.

  • The Silver arm

    David Silver at M.I.T designs the Silver Arm, a robotic to do small parts assembly

  • Shigeo Hirose's soft gripper

    it could conform to the shape of any grasped object

  • C3-po and R2-D2 in Star Wars

    an ambassador like robot and a smaller mechanic like robot

  • The Stanford Cart

    A long term research project under taken at Stanford university

  • Denning sentry robot

    Boston-based Denning designed the Sentry robot as a security guard patrolling for up to 14 hours at 3 mph. It radioed an alert about anything unusual in a 150-foot radius.

  • NSFNET starts up

    The 2200 used a built-in CRT, cassette tape for storage, and ran the programming language BASIC.

  • Macintosh portable is released

    The 2200 used a built-in CRT, cassette tape for storage, and ran the programming language BASIC.

  • the World Wide Web is born

    At the world’s biggest physics laboratory, CERN in Switzerland, English programmer and physicist Tim Berners-Lee submits two proposals for what will become the Web, starting in March of 1989.

  • microsoft releases the X-Box

    In 1998, members of Microsoft's multi-media DirectX team reconfigured old Dell laptops to create a Window-based video game console. They brought the idea to Microsoft management, which approved the idea of a home game console based on Microsoft's Direct X graphics technology.

  • opportunity and spirit rovers land on mars

    opportunity and spirit rovers land on mars
    Caltech designs both the Opportunity and Spirit Mars Rovers. Both landed in 2004 and ran 20 times longer than their planned lifetime of 90 days. While Spirit ceased to move in 2009 and communications from the rover stopped in 2010, Opportunity far exceeded its expected lifetime.