robot timeline By hotboyaustin 1913 Henry Ford installs the world’s first moving conveyor belt-based assembly line in. 1920 Karel Capek coins the word ‘robot’ to describe machines that resemble 1932 The first true robot toy was produced in Japan. 1937 Alan Turing releases his paper “On Computable Numbers” which begins the computer revolution. 1942 Legendary science fiction writer Isaac Asimov writes the short story ‘Liar!’ 1950 Alan Turing proposes a test to determine if a machine truly has the power to think for itself. 1954 firtst created robots 1954 George Devol and Joe Engelberger design the first programmable robot ‘arm’. 1955 Leonardo da Vinci sketched plans for a humanoid robot. 1957 The Soviet Union launches ‘Sputnik’, the first artificial orbiting satellite.
