History of robotics

  • Turning Test by Alan turning in 1950

    Turning Test by Alan turning in 1950
    The Alan Turning test, which was originally called the imitation game by Alan turning in 1950 is a test in which tests the ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to humans. Also its control system is managed via coding.
  • Electro-Mechanical Manipulator

    Electro-Mechanical Manipulator
    The ElectroMechanical Manipulator was the first remotely-controlled articulated arm, for the Atomic Energy Commission, this was made to handle radioactive material. As well, its control system is mechanical.
  • The First Artificial Intelligence Program

    The First Artificial Intelligence Program
    American researchers Allen Newell, Herbert Simon and John Shaw created the first artificial intelligence program. The artificial intelligence was the first computer that was able to process logic and be able to respond to a question. This was the first big break for AI control systems.
  • The first Unimate robot

    The first Unimate robot
    The first Unimate robot is installed in a General Motors plant in
    Trenton, New Jersey. The assembly line spot welding robot is
    controlled step-by-step by commands stored on a magnetic drum and was one of the first unimate robot with a coded control system.
  • AI that can reason about its surroundings.

    AI that can reason about its surroundings.
    An artificial intelligence program named ELIZA is created at MIT
    by Joseph Weizenbaum. and inputs it into Shakey and creates the first mobile a robot that can reason about its surroundings and move up and down ramps and pick up blocks. This was the first AI control system that can reason/feel/see its surroundings.
  • Industry robots

    Industry robots
    The Japanese company Kawasaki develops the Kawasaki-Unimate 2000 which is the first industrial robot ever produced in Japan, with technology. The robot is used to help the industry business with heavy loads and sorting as well as welding. These robots were inspired by the first unimate robot in 1962 and uses coding as its control system.
  • A Data Base

    A Data Base
    AI researcher Douglas Lenat initiates the encyclopedia
    project to create a database of common sense to help robots
    understand our world and their surrounding and be able to absorb knowledge when it is given some and able to repeat it. The control system used was coding.
  • The PUMA 560 robotic surgical arm.

    The PUMA 560 robotic surgical arm.
    The PUMA 560 robotic surgical arm was used to be sent into a flooded basement of a damaged reactor building. it drilled core samples to measure radiation levels and the two robots worked
    for four years inside the reactor building and remain there to
    this day. This robot's control system was mechanical as it had to be precisely done by a human.
  • The First Self replicating robot

    The First Self replicating robot
    A team of researchers at Cornell University built the first self replicating robot. The robot can create itself which is a code which can be implemented into other robots in the industry to help them replicate robots. This is a much more efficient way of making robots as humans are not needed, and all the company needs to buy is the parts and the robots will just go off of their code. The control system is coding.
  • Driverless cars

    Driverless cars
    The first driverless cars were tested on tracks before going out to the public. This is because they had to do trial and error with an AI system to eventually make it understand its surrounding and when to stop and go. This has been done with cameras big 360 cameras and coding. Hopefully in the future we won't need big cameras.