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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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In 1954, George Devol invented the first digitally operated and programmable robot called the Unimate.
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In 1960, the Digital Equipment Corporation released it's first of many PDP computers, the PDP-1
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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
