Robot Timeline

  • First Robot

    First Robot
    The word "robot" is first used in 1921 by Czech playwrite Karel Capek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots). The play involves a factory that builds artificial people to be servants for humans. In 1926, Metropolis becomes the first movie to portray a humanoid robot on screen.
  • Law of Robot

    Law of Robot
    The first law is that a robot shall not harm a human, or by inaction allow a human to come to harm. The second law is that a robot shall obey any instruction given to it by a human, and the third law is that a robot shall avoid actions or situations that could cause it to come to harm itself.
  • Robot toys

    Robot toys
    "Robot conductor was made by Russian children of the Blast Station of Young Technicians
  • Robot wars

    Robot wars
    Robot Wars is a robot combat competition that was broadcast on British television from 1998 to 2004 and again from 2016 to 2018
  • Robot writing

    Robot writing
    Incredibly, the robot could eyeball each with machine vision and write its own copies of the words, even though it only ever trained to write Japanese. Also, they showed it English cursive in addition to print, and it handled both fine.
  • Robot are used for

    Robot are used for
    Most robots today are used to do repetitive actions or jobs considered too dangerous for humans. A robot is ideal for going into a building that has a possible bomb. Robots are also used in factories to build things like cars, candy bars, and electronics
  • Rule of Robot

    A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
  • Three Law Robot

    Three Law Robot
    The first law is that a robot shall not harm a human, or by inaction allow a human to come to harm. The second law is that a robot shall obey any instruction given to it by a human, and the third law is that a robot shall avoid actions or situations that could cause it to come to harm itself.
  • Robot Generation

    Robot Generation
    A first-generation robot is a simple mechanical arm. These machines have the ability to make precise motions at high speed, many times, for a long time. ... First-generation robots can work in groups, such as in an automated integrated manufacturing system (AIMS), if their actions are synchronized
  • Today Robot

    Today Robot
    Today robots are a part of many aspects of industry, medicine, science, space exploration, construction, food packaging and are even used to perform surgery. Watson, a robot with artificial intelligence from IBM, defeated the human players in an episode of Jeopardy.
  • Robot history

    Robot history
    Today robots are a part of many aspects of industry, medicine, science, space exploration, construction, food packaging and are even used to perform surgery. Watson, a robot with artificial intelligence from IBM, defeated the human players in an episode of Jeopardy.
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    smart robots

    iRobot. iRobot: Smarter home robots. ...
    Hanson Robotics. Hanson Robotics: Building humanoid robots. ...
    Emotech. ...
    PathAI. ...
    Pager. ...
    Atomwise. ...
    Massachusetts General Hospital. ...
    Betterment.