Robotics and AI timeline

By Mireia Font

  • Elektro

    Elektro
    Built by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1937.

  • Robotics laws

    Robotics laws
    The Three Laws of Robotics are a set of rules devised by the science fiction author Isaac Asimov and were introduced in his 1942. First Law
    A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Second Law
    A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. Third Law
    A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law

  • Turing test

    Turing test
    The Turing test, originally called the imitation game by Alan Turing in 1950.

  • Unimate

    Unimate
    Unimate was the first industrial robot, it was invented by George Devol in 1962.

  • Mars Rover

    Mars Rover
    A Mars rover is a motor vehicle that travels across the surface of the planet Mars.

  • Famulus

    Famulus
    Faulus is a manufacturer of industrial robots and solutions for factory automation.

  • Deep Blue

    Deep Blue
    Deep Blue was a chess-playing computer developed by IBM.

  • Nomad robot

    Nomad robot
    The Nomad rover is an unmanned vehicle designed as a test for such a vehicle to ride on other planets.

  • Aibo

    Aibo
    AIBO is a series of robotic dogs designed and manufactured by Sony. The first consumer model was introduced on 11 May 1999.

  • Asimo

    Asimo
    ASIMO is a humanoid robot created by Honda in 2000.

  • Roomba

    Roomba
    Roomba is a series of autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners sold by iRobot, introduced in September 2002.

  • Canadarm2

    Canadarm2
    The Mobile Servicing System (MSS) is a robotic system on board the International Space Station.

  • Big Dog

    Big Dog
    BigDog is a dynamically stable quadruped military robot that was created in 2005 by Boston Dynamics with Foster-Miller.

  • Topio

    Topio
    TOPIO is a bipedal humanoid robot designed to play table tennis against a human being. It has been developed since 2005 by TOSY, a robotics firm in Vietnam.

  • iCub

    iCub
    iCub is a 1 metre tall open source robotics humanoid robot testbed for research into human cognition and artificial intelligence.

  • Google Glasses

    Google Glasses
    Google Glass, or simply Glass, is a brand of smart glasses.

  • Alexa

    Alexa
    Amazon Alexa, also known simply as Alexa,[2] is a virtual assistant AI technology developed by Amazon.

  • Sophia

    Sophia
    Sophia is a social humanoid robot developed by Hong Kong-based company Hanson Robotics.