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In 270 BC a Greek engineer named Ctesibus made organs with water clocks and movable figures.
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In 1818 an author named Mary Shelley created the book Frankenstein which encouraged robotics.
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The word robot was first used in a play about a robot that came to life and killed its creator.
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A sci-fi book by an author named Isaac Asimov used the word robotics to describe technology and the book he predicted the uprising of an important robot company.
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The same author of the book before made another one about 3 laws of robotics and they were, a robot cannot harm a human, a robot must obey orders unless they violate the first one, a robot can do anything to protect itself without violating rule 1 and 2.
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A book was published and influenced the start of A.I.
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A octopus tentacle like arm was developed.
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The Stanford arm was created which was the first electronically powered robot.
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Another robotic arm was made and it could assemble things.
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The Stanford Cart was created and it was the first robot to cross a room and it had a camera on it that moved and took things like pictures or videos and they went straight to a computer and it calculated the distance travelled.