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350 BCE
The Wooden Bird
~Greek Mathematician
~Archytas of Tarentum
~Mechanical Wooden Bird
~Jet of Steam or Compressed Air. -
Tesla Coil
A Tesla coil is a resonant electrical transformer circuit invented by Nikola Tesla in 1891. It is used to generate alternating-current energy with a high voltage, low current, and a high frequency. -
Unimate
George Devol constructed the Unimate, the first commercially available digital and programmable robot, in 1954. In 1961, it was sold to General Motors and was utilised to lift hot metal from die casting machines at the Inland Fisher Guide Plant in West Trenton, Ewing Township, New Jersey. -
Shakey
Shakey, the first mobile robot with the ability to observe and reason about its environment, was developed by a team of engineers led by Charles Rosen at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in the late 1960s, with funding from the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).