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The first robot made
In early 1950 the earliest Robot was made by George C. Devol, an inventor from Louisville, Kentucky. -
Squee: The Robot Squirrel
Squee, the robotic squirrel was made in 1951 and was one of the first robots to be experimented with. He was 75% reliable at finding 'nuts' (tennis balls). -
LISP was invented
The programming language LISP (short for "List Processing”) is invented in 1958 by John McCarthy at MIT. -
Unimate is made!
UNIMATE, the first mass-produced industrial robot, and began work at General Motors. -
Dendral The AI
In 1965, A Stanford team led by professors Ed Feigenbaum, Joshua Lederberg and Carl Djerassi creates DENDRAL, the first “expert system.” -
Star wars
The Blockbuster Star Wars change the view of robots throughout the world. -
Computer defeats master chess player
David Levy is the first master chess player to be defeated by a computer. The program Deep Thought defeats Levy who had beaten all other previous computer counterparts since 1968. -
Nintendo releases the Game Boy handheld game console
Nintendo Releases a 'Gameboy including the new graphics for 50 games, all in a singular device. -
Nintendo releases the Game Boy handheld game console
Sony enters the home gaming market with the release of the PlayStation console in Japan in 1994 and in the US a few months later. -
Nvidia releases the GeForce 256
Video applications for personal computers drive demand for increased graphical performance.