Main historical moments of robotics.

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  • Beginnings of Robotics

    Beginnings of Robotics
    MIT professor Norbert Wiener publishes Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal, a book describing the concept of communications and control in electronics, mechanics, and biological systems British roboticist William Gray Walter creates autonomous machines named Elmer and Elsie that mimic behavior realistic with few simple circuits.

  • First articulated arm

    First articulated arm
    American engineer Raymond Goertz designs the Electro Mechanical Manipulator, the first remote-controlled articulated arm, for the Atomic Energy Commission.

  • First NC machine

    First NC machine
    The first CNC (numerically controlled) machine is built at MIT.

  • First Programmable Robot Arm

    First Programmable Robot Arm
    George Devol y Joe Engleberger diseñan el primer ‘brazo’ robot programable. Más tarde se convirtió en el primer robot industrial, completando tareas peligrosas y repetitivas en una línea de montaje en General Motors (1962).

  • First Artificial Robot

    First Artificial Robot
    MIT researcher Heinrich Ernst develops the MH-1, a computer-operated mechanical hand. The First Industrial Robot: The first industrial robot was introduced to the production line at the General Motors plant in 1961. The "Unimate" was a powerful robotic arm for installing cast metal products and welded components on automobile chassis. It was the first robotic arm that helped speed up production lines in factories around the world.

  • The first industrial robot produced in Japan

    The first industrial robot produced in Japan
    The United States successfully uses the latest in computer, robotics, and space technology to land Neil Armstrong on the moon. The Japanese company Kawasaki develops the Kawasaki-Unimate 2000, the first industrial robot produced in Japan with Unimation technology and license.
    Victor Scheinman, a researcher at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory creates the Stanford Arm, the first successful real electric, computer-controlled robotic arm.

  • The world's first large-scale anthropomorphic robot

    The world's first large-scale anthropomorphic robot
    Cincinnati Milacron Corporation launches the T3, (The Tomorrow Tool) the first commercially available industrial robot controlled by a minicomputer. Wabot 1, the world's first large-scale anthropomorphic robot, is built at Waseda University in Japan. He is able to communicate in Japanese, walk, and grasp objects with his hands.

  • first officially recorded use of a medical robot

    first officially recorded use of a medical robot
    American AI researcher Douglas Lenat starts the EnCYClopedia project to create a common sense database to help robots understand our world. The first officially recorded use of a medical robot dates back to 1984, when Artrobot, developed in Vancouver by Jeff Ochinleck and Dr. James McWan in collaboration with surgeon Brian Day, was used in orthopedic surgery.

  • walking robot

    walking robot
    Carnegie Universities eight-legged walking robot Dante ll successfully descends to Mount Spur in Alaska to collect samples of volcanic gas.

  • AIBO

    AIBO
    Sony launches the first version of AIBO, a robotic dog with the ability to learn, entertain and communicate with its owner. More advanced versions have followed.