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Jan 1, 1495
Da Vinci's Knight
Leonardo DaVinci built a mechanized robot to look and move like a knight. It is designed to give the impression that there is a real knight inside. This never had any practical purposes and was built mostly to amuse royalty. -
Jacques's Automaton
Jacques de Vaucanson built a robot that could do imitate movements of a duck. -
L'Ecrivain
Swiss inventors Pierre and Henri Jacquet-Droz created a robotic chiled called L'Ecrivain. It used a mechanical brain to write messages that could go up to 40 characters. -
Elektro
Elektro was a robot created for the 1939 New York World's Fair. He was a humanoid robot that would talk, move, count, recognize colors, and smoke cigarettes. -
Shakey
Created by the Stanford Research Institute, shakey is the first robot to know and react to its own actions. This gives it the ability to not need a full set of instructions to complete a task. It uses reasoning to accomplish a simple goal. -
The MacHack
Richard Greenblatt created a computer program with the ability to play chess. He created it in order to prove to Hurbert Dreyfus that a comoputer could beat him in a game of chess. And the program succeeded in its goal. -
Roomba
Roomba is a robot designed by iRobot, a robotics company. It is a cleaning robot which uses sensor technology to vacuum. They avoid obstacles and can detect dirty spots on floors. -
BIGDOG
BIGDOG was created by Boston Dynamics as an all-terrain robot. It moves in the fashion that a real dog would. It can manuver over most terrains and it has advanced sensors for detecting and observing the enviornment. -
Curiosity
A robot made by NASA and sent to Mars. It is a super advanced robot. It even has a built-in labatory. -
Transforming robots
A work inprogress, the MorphHex is a transforming robot designed by Kåre Halvorsen, in Norway. It has the ability to transform into a ball or to walk around almost like a beetle.
