Robotics

By dickjosh
  • Aug 26, 1495

    1495

    1495
    Leonardo da Vinci sketched plans for a humanoid robot

  • 1913

    1913
    Henry Ford installs the world's first moving conveyor belt-based assembly line for his car factory

  • 1920

    1920
    Karel Capek uses the word robot to describe human like machines in his play.

  • 1932

    1932
    japan built the first ever tin toy robot and it was named lilliput

  • 1950

    Alan Turing did a test to see if a machine has the power to think for itself, later to be known as the Turing Test

  • 1954

    1954
    George Devol and Joe Engleberger design the first programmable robot "arm"

  • 1977

    1977
    The release of the first Star Wars movie which starred R2-D2 and C-3PO two Robots who were introduced in the movie

  • 2005

    cornell university built the first self replicating robot.