History of robotics timeline.

1495 Leonardo da vincis humanoid robot

Sep 9, 1495

Leonardo da vinci designed what may be the first humanoid robot though it cannot be confirmed.

Blaise pascal's calculator

Oct 9, 1645

Invented a calculating machine to help his father with taxes. The device is called the pascaline and about 50 pascalines were built.

Jacques de Vaucansons "The duck"

Sep 9, 1709

This device could flap it's wings,eat,and digest grain.Each wing contained over four-hundred moving parts.

Joseph-marie jacquard's electric loom

Sep 9, 1801

Programmed to create designs that could be printed onto cloth or tissue.

John brainerd's "steam man"

Apr 9, 1865

used to pull wheeled carts and more.

Westinghouse's ELEKTRO

Sep 9, 1937

A human-like robot that could walk,talk,and smoke.

Willard pollard and Harold roselund programmable paint sprayer.

Sep 9, 1942

The first "programmable" mechanism, a paint sprayer was designed for the DeVilbiss company.

W. grey walter "Turtle robots"

Sep 9, 1948

Elmer and Elsie,Also known as the turtle robots.The robots were capable of finding their charging station when their power ran low.

George Devol's Unimate

Sep 9, 1954

Designd the first truly programmable robot and it called UNIMATE for "Universal Automation."

Mcgee and Frank's computer controlled bot.

Sep 9, 1968

The first computer controlled walking machine.

R.Moshers manual walking truck

Sep 9, 1968

The first manually controlled truck. It could walk up to 4 miles per hour.

Victor Scheinman's stanford arm.

Sep 9, 1969

First successful electrically-powered,computer-programmed robot arm.

Wabot

Sep 9, 1973

Ichiro kato created WABOT 1 which was the first full-scale anthropomorphic robot in the world.

Intel

Sep 9, 1974

Produced by the first batch of second-generation 8080 general purpose chips.

Victor Schenman's puma

Sep 9, 1975

Developed puma.Was widely used in industrial operations.