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400 BCE
First Known Robot
The first known robot was created in 400-350 BC by Archytas. He created an artificial bird out of wood and used steam to power it's movements.
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1495
The First Recorded Design of a Humanoid Robot
One of the first recorded designs of a humanoid robot was made by Leonardo da Vinci in around 1495. His designs contain detailed drawings of a mechanical knight in armour which was able to sit up, wave it's arms and move it's head and jaw.
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When Technology started
The electromechanical age can be defined as the time between 1840 and 1940. These are the beginnings of telecommunication. The telegraph was created in the early 1800s. Morse code was created by Samuel Morse in 1835.
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The First Computer
Charles Babbage created the first computer in 1822. It doesn't look like the computers of today. It was ten times the size of a normal computer today.
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First Remote-Controlled Systems
In the early 1870s, a remote controlled torpedo was created by John Ericsson, John Louis Lay, and Victor von Scheliha.
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The First Computer Company
The First computer company was the Electronic Controls Company. It was founded by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. They released a series of mainframe computers.
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Who Started Robotics
In the 1950s, George Devol designed the Unimate, a robotic arm device that transported die castings in a General Motors plant in New Jersey, which started work in 1961. Unimation was the first robot manufacturing company.
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First Programmable Robot
In 1954, George Devol invented the first digitally operated and programmable robot called the Unimate.
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The First Minicomputer
In 1960, the Digital Equipment Corporation released it's first of many PDP computers, the PDP-1
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The Purpose of the First Robot
George Devol sold the first Unimate to General Motors in 1960 in Trenton New Jersey. It's purpose was to lift hot pieces of metal from a die casting machine and stack them.
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First Humanoid Robot
Japenese robotics have led the field since the 1970s. Waseda University initiated the WABOT project in 1967, and in 1972 completed WABOT-1, the world's first full-scale humanoid robot.
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Who Invented the Computer Network
Many of the researchers who worked on ARPANET made significant contributions to the evolution of the internet, including Leonard Kleinrock, inventor of packet switching. Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn invented TCP/IP protocol in the 1970s, and in 1972, Ray Tomlinson introduced network email.
https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4399541/ARPANET-establishes-1st-computer-to-computer-link--October-29--1969 -
The First Technology Introduced to the World
Although the first computers wre developed in the '30s, everyday-use computers were introduced in the '80s. The first portable computer, in 1981, weighed 24 pounds and cost $1,795. When IBM introduced its first personal computer in 1981, the educational world knew that it was on the verge of greatness.
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First Direct Drive Arm
Takeo Kanade created the first "direct drive arm" in 1981. The first of it's kind, the arm's motors were contained within the robot itself, eliminating long transmissions.
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When were Computer Networks Invented
ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the network of networks that became the modern internet.
https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4399541/ARPANET-establishes-1st-computer-to-computer-link--October-29--1969
