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Jan 1, 1495
Da Vinci's Robot
Leonardo da Vinci designed what may be the first humanoid robot though it cannot be confirmed if the design was actually ever produced. The robot was designed to sit up, wave its arms, and move its head via a flexible neck while opening and closing its jaw. -
Blaise Pascal - Pascaline
Blaise Pascal invented a calculating machine to help his father with taxes. The device was called the Pascaline and about 50 Pascalines were built. Only a few can be found in museums such as the one on display in the Des Arts et Metiers Museum in Paris. -
Steam Man
John Brainerd created the Steam Man -
Electric Man
Frank Reade Jr built the "Electic Man" -
ELEKTRO
Westinghouse creates ELEKTRO a human-like robot that could walk, talk, and smoke -
Robotics
Isaac Asimov first used the word "robotics" to describe the technology of robots and predicted the rise of a powerful robot industry -
Pollard and Roselund, paint sprayer
The first programmable mechanism , a paint-sprayer, was designed by Willard Pollard and Harold Roselund -
Elmer and Elsie
W. Grey Walter created his first robots; Elmer and Elsie, also known as the turtle robots -
Articulated Arm
Raymond Goertz designed the first tele-operated articulated arm for the Atomic Energy Commission -
UNIMATE
George Devol designed the first truly programmable robot and called it
UNIMATE for "Universal Automation." -
Industrial Robots
One of the first operational, industrial robots in North America appeared in the early 1960's in a candy factory in Kitchener, Ontario -
Mcgee and Frank
The first computer controlled walking machine was created by Mcgee and Frank at the University of South Carolina -
WABOT
Ichiro Kato created WABOT I which was the first full-scale anthropomorphic robot in the world. -
Intel
Intel produced the first bath of second-generation 8080 general purpose chips -
Titan II
Shigeo Hirose developed Titan II -
1985
Collie 1, was developed by H. Miura at the University of Tokyo -
1989
Aquarobot, a walking robot for underea use, was created at the Robotics Laboratory at the Ministry of Transport in Japan -
Danta
The 8 legged walking robot Danta explored Mt. Erebrus in Antarctica -
NASA PathFinder
NASA's PathFinder landed on Mars. The wheeled robotic rober sent images and data about Mars back to Earth -
Cye Robot
Personal Robots released the Cye robot which performed a variety of household chores. -
Roomba
iRobot released the first generation of Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners -
Spirit and Sojourner
As part of their mission to explore Mars, NASA launched twin robotic rovers -
Robotic Fish
It was reported that Japanese scientists had unveiled a robotic fish that could one day be used to observe fish in the ocean or survey oil platforms for damage. -
Robotic Hornet
An Israeli newspaper reported that Israel is using nanotechnology to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that would be able to chase, photograph and kill its targets. -
Robots That Teach
South Korean education officials said almost 30 robots have started teaching English to young kids in a South Korean city, in a pilot project designed to nurture the nascent robot industry. -
Hovering Robots
Scientists at the Harvard robotics laboratory performed a successful flight of hovering robots the size of crane flies.
