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270 BCE
Greek Engineer Ctesibus
In 270 BC a Greek engineer named Ctesibus made organs with water clocks and movable figures. -
Frankenstein
In 1818 an author named Mary Shelley created the book Frankenstein which encouraged robotics. -
Word Robot First Used
The word robot was first used in a play about a robot that came to life and killed its creator. -
Word Robotics Developed
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. -
A Robot Book On Law
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. -
A.I started
A book was published and influenced the start of A.I. -
Robot Octopus Arm
A octopus tentacle like arm was developed. -
Stanford Arm
The Stanford arm was created which was the first electronically powered robot. -
Silver Arm
Another robotic arm was made and it could assemble things. -
Stanford Cart
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.