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Computing Machinery and Intelligence
In 1950 Computing Machinery and Intelligence was first published by Alan Turning. He proposed a test to determine whether or not a machine had gained the power to think for itself. -
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History of robotics
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Unimate
George Devol an inventer, invented what is consider the first modern robot which was programmable. He named it Unimate and it was sold to generals motor in 1960 where it was installed in a plant to lift hot piece of metal from a die casting machine. t -
Stanford Arm
Victor Scheinman, whom was a Mechanical Engineering student that worked in Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL) designed and created the Stanford Arm in 1969. -
Soft Gripper
Soft gripper a robot was created in 1976 by shigeo Hirose. It could wrap around an object like a snake. -
Direct Drive Arm
The direct Drive Arm was created in 1981 by Takeo Kanade, It was the first direct drive arm to have motors in the joints of the arms, -
Dante
An eight legged robot called Dante was developed at the Carnegie melton University in 1993. Dante was designed to collect data in harsh environments. Unfortunately Dante failed but Dante 2 was created in year 1994 as a more robust version. -
Robotuna
In 1996 a biomimetic robot called Robotuna. It was designed to mirror a blue fin tuna -
Robot ASIMO of Honda
In 2000 Honda revealed to the world the ASIMO. This Robot was so advanced it could run, walk, communicate and interact with humans and the environment. -
Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity
Robots spirit and Opportunity set out in 2003 to mars where they have traveled distances unexpected. -
Starfish
In 2006 a 4 legged robot called starfish was created. This robot was capable of self modelling and learning to walk after being damaged.