10 Robots

By katj2691
  • 1092

    Celestial ladder

    Celestial ladder
    The oldest known illustration of an endless power-transmitting chain drive. Made by Su Song. It was used in his hydro-mechanical astronomical clock tower, mounted at the top. It coupled the main driving shaft of his clock tower to the armillary sphere gear box.
  • 1206

    Al-Jazari's musical robot band

    Al-Jazari's musical robot band
    Al-Jazari's invented the use of hydraulic switching. From this knowledge he made a musical automaton, which was a boat with four automatic musicians that floated on a lake to entertain guests at royal drinking parties. The drummer could play different rhythms with the use of pegs.
  • 1495

    Leonardo's mechanical knight

    Leonardo's mechanical knight
    A humanoid automaton designed and possibly constructed by Leonardo da Vinci. The design was found in a sketchbook found in 1950. The robot can stand, sit, move its arms and therefore also raise its visor. The robot was displayed at a celebration hosted by Ludovico Sforza at the court of Milan in 1495.

  • Enigma Machine

    Enigma Machine
    Made in different versions by Arthur Scherbius.

  • Eric

    Eric
    The first British robot made by First World War veteran William Richards and aircraft engineer Alan Reffell.

  • ENIAC

    ENIAC
    ENIAC or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
    Was the first electronic general-purpose digital computer.
    It was Turing-complete. It contained 17,500 vacuum tubes, linked by 500,000 soldered connections. It filled a 50-foot long basement room and weighed 30 tons. Today, a single microchip, no bigger than a fingernail, can do more than those 30 tons of hardware.

  • Snake

    Snake
    Snake is a videogame concept where the player maneuvers a line which grows in length, with the line itself being a primary obstacle. It was first published by Nokia, for the Nokia 6110. It was programmed by Taneli Armanto.

  • Deep Blue

    Deep Blue
    Deep Blue is a chess-playing computer developed by IBM. It played against Garry Kasparov but Deep Blue lost with a score of 4-2. The computer was upgraded and played against Kasparov again in 1997. Deep Blue won the six-game rematch and became the first computer system to defeat a reigning world champion. Kasparov accused IBM of cheating and demanded a rematch, but they destroyed Deep Blue.