Nikola Tesla builds and demonstrates a remote controlled robot boat
First robot ever made
Unimate
ELIZA is created at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum
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.
Takeo Kanade builds the direct drive arm.
Dante an 8-legged walking robot developed at Carnegie Mellon University
The Pathfinder Mission land on Mars.
Honda builds ASIMO
LEGO releases the MINDSTORMS Robotics Invention SystemTM 2.0
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.
