A Quick Timeline of Robotic advancements
- 270 BC: Ctesibius (Greek Physicist) creates water clocks with movable figures
- 1495: Leonardo Da Vinci creates a design for a mechanical person called the Anthrobot
- 1801: Joseph Jacquard creates a punch card operated mechanical loom
- 1890's: Nikola Tesla creates self moving vehicles along with other inventions
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- 1921: the word robot is first used in Czech playwright R.U.R (Russom's Universal Robots)
- 1942: Isaac Asimov creates the three laws of robotics
- 1954: the first programmable robot is designed by George Devol
- 1970: the first mobile robot with artificial intelligence was created its name was shakey.
- 1985: REX was the world's first autonomous digging machine. It sensed and planned to excavate without damaging buried gas pipes. This robot used a hypersonic air knife to erode soil around pipes.
- 1997: NASA’s PathFinder lands on Mars and the Sojourner rover robot captures images.
- 2000: Humanoid robots, Honda Asimo, Sony Dream Robots (SDR), and the Aibo robot dog are showcased.
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