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Ctesibus of Alexandria designs water clocks
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Nikola Tesla builds and demonstrates a remote controlled robot boat
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First robot ever made
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ELIZA is created at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum
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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 and inspires a generation of researchers.
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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 land 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
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Star Wars is released.