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"Rossum's Universal Robots"
Karel Kapek's play named “Rossum's Universal Robots” (RUR) opens in London, first use of the word "robot" in English. -
Foundations for neural networks laid.
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Robotics term came about
Isaac Asimov, a Columbia University alumni, coined the term Robotics. -
Artificial Intelligence term came about
John McCarthy coined the term Artificial Intelligence. Demonstration of the first running AI program at Carnegie Mellon University. -
LISP programming language for AI
John McCarthy invents LISP programming language for AI. -
MIT disseration
Danny Bobrow's dissertation at MIT showed that computers can understand natural language well enough to solve algebra word problems correctly. -
ELIZA invented
Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT built ELIZA, an interactive problem that carries on a dialogue in English. -
Shakey, the robot invented
Scientists at Stanford Research Institute Developed Shakey, a robot, equipped with locomotion, perception, and problem solving. -
Freddy, the Scottish robot invented
The Assembly Robotics group at Edinburgh University built Freddy, the Famous Scottish Robot, capable of using vision to locate and assemble models. -
First computer-controlled autonomouse vehicle
The first computer-controlled autonomous vehicle, Stanford Cart, was built. -
First Self-sufficient Driverless Car Invented
The first self-sufficient and truly autonomous cars appeared in 1984 with Carnegie Mellon University's Navlab and ALV projects. -
Aaron, a drawing program invented
Harold Cohen created and demonstrated the drawing program, Aaron. -
Major advances in all areas of AI take place
Significant demonstrations in machine learning
Case-based reasoning
Multi-agent planning
Scheduling
Data mining, Web Crawler
natural language understanding and translation
Vision, Virtual Reality
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Deep Blue Chess Program beat human
The Deep Blue Chess Program beats the then world chess champion, Garry Kasparov. -
Kismet - emotionally equipped robot
One of the first robots able to demonstrate social and emotional interactions with humans. -
Interactive robot pets become commercially available
Interactive robot pets become commercially available. MIT displays Kismet, a robot with a face that expresses emotions. The robot Nomad explores remote regions of Antarctica and locates meteorites. -
First robotic vacuum cleaner created
Launched the Roomba in 2002, which was able to change direction when it encountered an obstacle, detect dirty spots on the floor, and identify steep drops to keep it from falling down stairs. The Roomba proved to be the first commercially successful robot vacuum. -
Introduction of Siri
A voice-assistant powered by Apple. -
Alexa developed
A virtual-assistant system was developed by Amazon. -
ChatGPT
A chatbot able to emulate human-like conversation.
