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The first known robot was created around 400-350 BC by the mathematician Archytas and was a steam powered pigeon.
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The Argonautica, a Greek Epic written in the 3rd Century B.C. tells of a big robot known as Talos who would protect the island of crete from invaders and Talos was made of Bronze.
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If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.”
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Leonardo De Vinci sketched a android that looked like an armoured knight and would move on it's own
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In1738, Jacques de Vaucanson created in most famous automaton (a moving mechanical device made to imitate a living organism) called The duck. It did everything that a duck would do it eat and it would digest.
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Although people had long imagined robots, no one really knew what to call them until Czech writer
Karel Capek introduced the word "Robot" in his play "R.U.R" (Rossuum's Universal Robots) in 1921. "Robot" in Czech comes from the word "robota", meaning "Required Labor" -
Throughout the 1940’s, Isaac Asimov produces a series of short stories about robots. His best fiction was the three laws of robots that they cannot break
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In 1954, George Devol and Joe Engleberger design the first
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The Soviet Union launches ‘Sputnik’,was the first orbiting satellite.This marked the space race between other countries.
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1969
The U.S. successfully use the latest in computing, space and robotics that helped Neil armstrong land on the moon -
In 1994, Carnegie Universities eight-legged walking robot, Dante ll,used to go to volcanoes to take a sample of volcanic gases that would be dangerous for human.
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A Humanoid robot
