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1857 BCE
Caesious of Alexandria designs water clocks
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Nikola Tesla builds and demonstrates a remote controlled robot boat
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George Devol patents a playback device for controlling machines.
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first robot created
late 1960's -
ELIZA is created at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum.
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Creation of r2d2 and c3po
Star Wars is released.
George Lucas' movie about
a universe governed
by the force introduces watchers
to R2-D2 and C-3PO. The movie
creates the strongest image of a
human future with robots since the 1960's
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Takeo Kanade builds the direct drive arm.
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Dante an 8-legged walking robot developed at Carnegie Mellon University
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The Pathfinder Mission lands on Mars.
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Honda builds ASIMO
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LEGO releases the MINDSTORMS Robotics Invention SystemTM 2.0
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Stanley Kubrick makes Arthur C. Clark's, 2001: A Space Odyssey into a movie. It features HAL, an onboard computer that decides it doesn't need its human counterparts any longer.
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SONY releases the AIBO ERS-7