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resource Robot is used to describe a computerized machine designed to respond to input received manually or from its surroundings.
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SourceDesigned by researcher George Stibitz.This is considered to be the first demonstration of remote access computing.
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resourceAlan Turing publishes Computing Machinery and Intelligence in which he proposes a test to determine whether or not a machine has gained the power to think for itself.
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sourceThe first integrated circuits (IC's) begin being sold for $120.00 and are chosen to be used on the Gemini spacecraft.
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SourceObeying step-by-step commands stored on a magnetic drum, the 4,000-pound arm sequenced and stacked hot pieces of die-cast metal.
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resourceThe Stanford Research Institute creates Shakey the first mobile robot to know and react to its own actions. Amongst other achievements SRI was also the research institute that helped bring us modern day laundry detergent in the development of Tide.
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The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet switching network and the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. ARPANET was initially funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense. -
Source Equipped with sensing devices and driven by a problem-solving program called STRIPS, the robot found its way around the halls of SRI by applying information about its environment to a route.
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resourceVictor Scheinman forms his own company and starts marketing the Silver Arm. It is capable of assembling small parts together using touch sensors.
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resourceIn development since 1967, the Stanford Cart successfully crossed a chair-filled room without human intervention in 1979. Hans Moravec rebuilt the Stanford Cart in 1977, equipping it with stereo vision. A television camera, mounted on a rail on the top of the cart, took pictures from several different angles and relayed them to a computer. The computer gauged the distance between the cart and obstacles in its path.
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sourcePaul Allen and Bill Gates buy the rights to a simple operating system manufactured by Seattle Computer Products and use it as a template. IBM allows the two to keep the marketing rights to the operating system, called DOS.
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sourceThe computer was code named and still sometimes referred to as the Acorn. THe IBM PC had a 8088 processor, 16 KB of memory, which was expandable to 256 and utilized MS-DOS.
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sourceDell Computer is founded May 3, 1984 in Austin Texas.
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resourceThe Pathfinder Mission lands on Mars. Its robotic rover Sojourner, rolls down a ramp and onto Martian soil in early July. It continues to broadcast data from the Martian surface until September.
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resourceLEGO releases their first Robotics Invention SystemTM 1.0. LEGO names the product line MINDSTORMS after Seymour Papert's seminal work of 1980.
