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Jan 1, 1495
Leornado Da Vinci's Robot
Leonardo DaVinci designs a mechanical device that looks like an armored knight. -
Nikola Tesla's remote controlled robot
Nikola Tesla builds and demonstrates a remote controlled robot boat -
Karel Capek
Karel Capek introduced the word "Robot" in his play "R.U.R" -
The General Electric Walking Truck
The General Electric Walking Truck is a , four-legged robot that could walk four miles an hour. It was powered by a computer. Ralph Moser developed the machine. in 1960 -
MH-1
Heinrich Ernst develops the MH-1, a computer operated mechanical hand at MIT. -
Unimate
Unimate, the first industrial robot ever created began work on the General Motors assembly line in 1961 -
The Rancho Arm
The first artificial robotic arm to be controlled by a computer was designed. -
ELIZA
An artificial intelligence program named ELIZA is created at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum. -
CHess playing robot
Richard Greenblatt writes, MacHack, a program that plays chess, in response to a recent article written by Hurbert Dreyfus where he suggests, as a critique to efforts in artificial intelligence, that a computer program could never beat him in a game of chess. When the program is finished and Dreyfus is invited to play the computer he leads for most of the game but ultimately loses in the end in a close match. Greenblatt's program would be the foundation for many future chess programs, ultimately -
Tentacle arm
The octopus-like Tentacle Arm was developed by Marvin Minsky in 1968 -
Soft Grippers
Shigeo Hirose designs the Soft Gripper at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. It is designed to wrap around an object in snake like fashion. -
Star Wars
Star wars is released and inspires a generation of researchers anbd shows the future of bots helping poeple in space -
Takeo Kanade
Takeo Kanade builds the direct drive arm. It is the first to have motors installed directly into the joints of the arm. This change makes it faster and much more accurate than previous robotic arms. -
The Dante ll
The Dante II, build by CMU Robotics, samples volcanic gases from the Mt. Spurr volcano in Alaska in 1994 -
RoboTuna
A RoboTuna is designed and built by David Barrett. The RoboTunba is used to study the way fish swim. -
P3
Honda debuts the P3, the fruit of its decade long effort to build a humanoid robot. -
Furby
Tiger Electronics introduces the Furby into the Christmas toy market. It quickly becomes "the toy" to get for the season. Using a variety of sensors this "animatronic pet" can react to its environment and communicate using over 800 phrases in English and their own language "Furbish". -
NXT MINDSTORM 1.0
LEGO releases their first Robotics Invention SystemTM 1.0. LEGO names the product line MINDSTORMS after Seymour Papert's seminal work of 1980. -
NXT MINDSTORM 1.5
LEGO releases The Robotics Discovery Set, Droid Developer Kit and the Robotics Invention System 1.5. -
AIBO
SONY releases the AIBO robotic pet. -
Sony Dream Robot
Sony revealed the Sony Dream Robots in 2000, small humanoid robots in development for entertainment. -
ASIMO
Honda debuts new humanoid robot ASIMO. -
NXT MINDSTORM 2.0
LEGO releases the MINDSTORMS Robotics Invention SystemTM 2.0 -
NXT MINDSTORMS Ultimate Builder's Set
LEGO releases the MINDSTORMS Ultimate Builder's Set -
Roomba Silver
Roomba Silve) released in 2002 had 3 buttons on the top: "Small," "Medium," and "Large" depending on the size of room you wanted it to clean. -
Spirit Rover to Mars
NASA launches the MER-A "Spirit" rover destined for Mars. -
MER-B
NASA launches the MER-B "Opportunity". -
Robosapien
The humanoid, Robosapien is created by US robotics physicist and BEAM expert, Dr. Mark W Tilden. -
Hubo
Hubo the walking humanoid was developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). -
Looj
Looj, Introduced in 2007 by IRobot Corporation, is a remote control rectangle with an auger on the front that can be rotated either forwards or backwards and, when placed in a gutter, will throw debris out of the gutter and onto the ground. The Looj, unlike many IRobot Corporation products, requires the user to climb up a ladder to control the Looj with its remote. -
The Roomba 500
Roomba slows down before it hits anything, and new Virtual Wall Lighthouses which allow Roomba to clean one room, let it into the next, then clean that one, then into the next, clean, and then guide it back to the first room to recharge. This generation of Roombas is also more sealed, so less dirt and dust can get inside of the spaces in the Roomba. It is also much easier to take apart and replace something if it were to break as its technology is in -
AIBO ERS-7
SONY releases the AIBO ERS-7 it's 3rd generation robotic pet.
