Robots

By JBTE15
  • 450

    First Robot

    First Robot
    The first robot was a wooden pidgeon made by Archytas of Tarentum in Greece
  • Jul 19, 1495

    Plans for Humanoid robot

    Plans for Humanoid robot
    Around 1495, before he began work on the Last Supper, Leonardo Di Vinci designed the first humanoid robot.

  • Nikola Testa's remote control boat

    Nikola Testa's remote control boat
    Nikolai Tesla demonstrates the first remote-controlled vehicle. The remote-control boat could be commanded to go, stop, turn left and right, turn its lights on and off, and even submerge. The public was not impressed. Press reports spoke of “mind control”, which didn't help Tesla's scientific reputation.

  • First use of the word robot

    First use of the word robot
    The term "robot" was first used in a play called "R.U.R." or "Rossum's Universal Robots" by the Czech writer Karel Capek. The current definition of a Robot is- A contraption able to perform certain complex task on it’s own

  • Huamnoid

    Huamnoid
    the first humanoid robot was created was built by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in its Mansfield, Ohio facility
    It was Seven feet tall, weighing 265 pounds, humanoid in appearance, he could walk by voice command, speak about 700 words, smoke cigarettes, blow up balloons, and move his head and arms.

  • First use of the word Robotics

    First use of the word Robotics
    Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov first used the word "robotics" to describe the technology of robots and predicted the rise of a powerful robot industry.

  • The laws of Robotics

    The laws of Robotics
    Asimov wrote "Runaround", a story about robots which contained the "Three Laws of Robotics":
    1st law: A robot may not injure a human, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
    2nd law: A robot must obey the orders it by human beings except where such orders would conflic with the First Law.
    3rd law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict withe the First or Second Law

  • First Robot Company

    First Robot Company
    George Devol and Joseph Engelberger formed the world's first robot company.

  • First industrial Robot

    First industrial Robot
    The first industrial robot was online in a General Motors automobile factory in New Jersey. It was called UNIMATE.

  • Robot arm that responds to thoughts.

    Robot arm that responds to thoughts.
    The robot prosthetic arm is controlled by the mind and has the same speed and reaction of a real arm. The robotic arm has been used by a quadriplegic woman and she was able to control the arm perfectly.