Technology History Project

Havard Mark 1

Nov 13, 1944

Source The HAvard Mark 1 was made by IBM. The use of it is for a calculater as long as fifty feet and had thousnads of parts. Only soon that mathematical tables would be on computers.

ENIAC

Apr 16, 1946

Source The Eniac was the origin of the memory unit. Which we still use today in modern technology.

Elmer and Elsie Robots

Aug 19, 1948

[Source ](chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/http://www.robotshop.com/media/files/pdf/timeline.pdf)Grey Walter created his first robots; Elmer and Elsie, also known as the turtle robots. The robots were capable of finding their charging station when their battery power ran low.

The Origin of Tic Tac Toe

Apr 9, 1952

Source A. S. Douglass creates OXO (a game known as noughts and crosses in the United Kingdom and tic-tac-toe in the United States) on Cambridge's EDSAC computer as part of his research on human-computer interactions.

Computer Checkers

Mar 20, 1956

Source Arthur Samuel demonstrates his computer checkers program, written on an IBM-701, on national television. Six years later the program defeats a checkers master.

The Robotics Institute

Nov 28, 1965

[Source ](chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/http://www.robotshop.com/media/files/pdf/timeline.pdf)The robotics was established by Carnegie Mellon

First internet - Arpanet

Apr 7, 1969

Source The Arpanat was the first network that connected computers and was developed by the U.S. military. The protocol TCP/IP was first developed to communicate and is still used today.

First Mobile Robot

Jun 18, 1970

Source Shakey was introduced as the first mobile robot controlled by artificial intellence. It was produced by SRI International.

The WABOT I

May 9, 1973

[Source ](chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/http://www.robotshop.com/media/files/pdf/timeline.pdf)In 1973 Ichiro Kato created WABOT I which was the first full-scale anthropomorphic robot in the world. It had a system for controlling limbs, vision, and conversation!

The Commodore PET

Jan 18, 1977

Source The Commodore PET was one of the first of several computers made. This computer only had a 8 kilobytes of memory, two built-in cassette drives, and a membrane "chiclet" keyboard.

The First Arm Robot

Oct 14, 1981

Source Takeo Kanade created the first "direct drive arm" in 1981. The first of its kind, the arm's motors were contained within the robot itself, eliminating long transmissions. So now we still use the robot arm today.

Aquarobot

Sep 17, 1989

[Source ](chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/http://www.robotshop.com/media/files/pdf/timeline.pdf)It was a walking robot for undersea use, was created at the Robotics Laboratory at the Ministry of Transport in Japan

Bluetooth Invented

Aug 16, 1994

Source The Bluetooth was made in 1994 by a group of Swedish workers. Then later on then they showed this idea to IBM and Toshiba. NOw today we use it.

RoboTuna

Jul 20, 1996

[Source ](chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/http://www.robotshop.com/media/files/pdf/timeline.pdf)RoboTuna was created by David Barrett at MIT. The robot was used to study how fish swim.

Honda P3

Aug 31, 1997

[Source ](chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/http://www.robotshop.com/media/files/pdf/timeline.pdf)Honda created the P3, the second major step in creating their ASIMO. The P3 was Honda’s first completely autonomous humanoid robot.