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Kenneth Robotics Timeline

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  • The Duck

    The Duck
    The mechanical duck had over 400 different parts, which isn't too surprising considering what it could do. It could flap its wings, and it could eat, digest, and subsequently defecate. http://www.pcworld.com/article/253664/historys_10_most_influential_robots.html

  • The word Robot

    The word Robot
    Karel Čapek introduced it in his 1920 hit play, R.U.R., or Rossum's Universal Robots. http://www.npr.org/2011/04/22/135634400/science-diction-the-origin-of-the-word-robot

  • First general purpose programable computer

    First general purpose programable computer
    Konrad Zuse, a German engineer, completes the first general purpose progammable calculator in 1941. He pioneers the use of binary math and boolean logic in electronic calculation. http://www.pbs.org/nerds/timeline/elec.html

  • The word Robotics

    The word Robotics
    The word robotics was first used in 1921 by a Russian science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov. He first used it in his short story "Runabout." https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/projects/1998-99/robotics/history.html

  • Elsie

    Elsie
    A neurophysiologist, Walter built wheeled automatons in order to experiment with goal-seeking behavior. His best known robot, Elsie, used photoelectric cells to seek moderate light while avoiding both strong light and darkness—which made it peculiarly attracted to women’s stockings. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/ai-robotics/

  • APT

    APT
    MIT´s Servomechanisms Laboratory demonstrates computer assisted manufacturing (CAM). The school´s Automatically Programmed Tools project created a language, APT, used to control milling machine operations. At the demonstration, an air force general claimed that the new technology would enable the United States to “build a war machine that nobody would want to tackle.” The machine produced a commemorative ashtray for each attendee. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/ai-robotics/

  • Whirlwind Machine

    Whirlwind Machine
    Whirlwind I was a cold war-era vacuum tube computer developed by MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory for the U.S navy

  • Integrated Circuit

    Integrated Circuit
    In 1959 Texas instruments and fairchild both announce the integrate Circuit http://www.pbs.org/nerds/timeline/mini.html

  • The first robot in use

    The first robot in use
    George Devol designed the Unimate, a robotic arm device that transported die castings in a General Motors plant in New Jersey, which started work in 1961. http://www.thomasnet.com/articles/engineering-consulting/robotics-history

  • The processor, and early hypertext system and a collaborative application.

    The processor, and early hypertext system and a collaborative application.
    Doug Engelbart demonstrates in 1968 a word processor, an early hypertext system and a collaborative application: three now common computer applications.

  • The Silver Arm

    The Silver Arm
    robotic arm (the Silver Arm) that performed small-parts assembly using feedback from touch and pressure sensors was designed.

  • The Altair 8800

    The Altair 8800
    Popular Electronics features the MITS Altair 8800 on its cover, January 1975. It is hailed as the first "personal" computer. Thousands of orders for the 8800 rescue MITS from bankruptcy. http://www.pbs.org/nerds/timeline/micro.html

  • The Stanford Cart

    The Stanford Cart
    The Stanford Cart was a long-term research project undertaken at Stanford University between 1960 and 1980. In 1979, it successfully crossed a room on its own while navigating around a chair placed as an obstacle. 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. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/ai-robotics/

  • Mars Rover, sojourner

    Mars Rover, sojourner
    Its main purpose was to demonstrate the kind of technology required to send an efficient, free-ranging robot to Mars, but in a relatively cost-effective way. The Pathfinder managed to enter Mars's atmosphere with a parachute and airbags for protection, and the Sojourner sent plenty of useful data about the Red Planet back to Earth for later use. http://www.pcworld.com/article/253664/historys_10_most_influential_robots.html

  • MQ-1 Predator drone

    MQ-1 Predator drone
    The MQ-1 Predator drone is introduced and put into action by the United States Air Force and the Central Intelligence Agency. It was widely used in Afghanistan and the Pakistani tribal areas against Al-Qaeda forces and Taliban militants starting after September 11, 2001. The unmanned aerial vehicles were equipped with cameras for reconnaissance and could be upgraded to carry two missiles. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/ai-robotics/