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The earliest designs of industrial robots were put into production in the United States. These manipulators had joints modelled on human shoulder-arm-wrist kinetics to replicate human motions like pulling, pushing, pressing and lifting.
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The first electronic autonomous robot with complex behavior were created by William Grey Walter.
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The first industrial robot was put to productive use in Japan.
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Honda began its humanoid research and development program to create robots capable of interacting successfully with humans.
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In 1994 one of the most successful robot-assisted surgery appliances was cleared by the FDA.
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The International Space Station created and launched into orbit a robot called Canadarm2. This device is larger, more capable version, and it is hailed as “smarter”
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The popular Roomba, a robotic vacuum cleaner, was first released in 2002 by the company iRobot
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Honda revealed a new version of its ASIMO robot, updated with new behaviors and capabilities
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The first humanoid robot was launched to the space to know how dextrous robots behave in space.
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The future investment summit created a robot called Sophia and referred to with female pronouns was granted Saudi Arabian citizenship, becoming the first robot ever to have a nationality.
