the Mars Science Laboratory

2010    

 

 

 

nanorobotics

 

   

 

 

 

VIPeR Battlefield Robot

2007    
 

Ishiguro Actroid

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 2006    
 

Ri man

 

 

 

 

 

 

2006    

 

 

 

AI@50

 

 

2006    
 

bionic prostheses

 

 

 

 

 

 

2006    
 

EveR-1

 

 

 

 

 

 

2006    
 

M Tran III

 

 

 

 

 

 

2005    
 

HUBO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2005    
 

Wakamaru

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2005    
 

Hybrid Assistive Limb

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2005    

 

 

 

NUVO

 

2005    
 

robot jockeys

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2004    

 

 

 

Robolympics

2004    
 

Snuggling Ifbot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2004    
 

DARPA Grand Challenge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2004    
 

the Robosapien

 

 

 

 

 

2004    
 

QRIO conducted the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

 

 

 

 

 

 

2004    

 

 

 

MER-B Opportunity

 

January 25, 2004    

 

 

 

Repliee-R1

 

 

Actroid ReplieeQ1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 2004    
 

MER-A Spirit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 4, 2004    
 

PatrolBot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2003    
 

Tmsuk's Banryu

 

 

 

 

 

 

2003    
 

ApriAlpha

 

 

 

 

 

2003    

 

 

 

the Robot Hall of Fame

 

2003    

 

 

 

Sony's SDR-4X

 

2002    
 

Fujitsu's Maron-1

 

 

 

 

 

 

2002    
 

iRobot's Roomba

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2002    

 

 

 

PaPeRo

 

2001    
 

A.I.

 

 

 

 

2001    

 

 

 

Cyborgs

 

2001    
 

Sony Dream Robot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2001    

 

 

 

Robodex

 

2000    
 

BLEEX

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2000    
 

ASIMO is a humanoid robot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2000    

 

 

 

the Open Pino platform

 

     
 

Pino

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1999    

 

 

 

Extreme machines: Incredible robots

 

1999    
 

Aibo

 

 

 

 

 

1999    

 

 

 

Personal Robots released the Cye robot it performed a vairety of household chores, such as deliver mail, carry dishes, and vacuum. It was created by Probotics Inc.

 

1999    

 

 

 

Deep Space 1

 

1998    
 

Lego Mindstorms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1998    
 

Kismet

 

 

 

 

 

 

1998    
 

Friendly Robotics' Robomow

 

 

 

1997    
 

RoboCup

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1997    
 

Mars Pathfinder

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 4, 1997    
 

Deep Blue became the first computer system to defeat a reigning world champion in a match under standard chess tournament time controls

 

 

 

 

May 11, 1997    
 

Furby

 

 

 

 

 

1997    

 

 

 

Domestic robots

 

 

Honda P3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1997    

 

 

 

RoboTuna was created by David Barrett at MIT

 

1996    
 

Honda P2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1996    
 

Citizen's Eco-Be minibot

 

 

1995    
 

Kaiko

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1995    
 

Robot Wars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1994-2002    

 

 

 

Swarm robotics

 

 

   

 

 

 

Microbots

 

 

Seiko's Monsieur

 

 

 

 

1993    
 

Honda P1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1993    
 

Cog

 

 

 

 

 

 

1993    

 

 

 

Evolutionary robotics

 

early 1990s    

 

 

 

the NASA Space Telerobotics Program

 

1992-1997    
 

Ambler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1990    

 

 

 

Robodoc performed a hip-replacement operation on a dog (1992 on a human patient)

 

1990    

 

 

 

Robotic surgery

 

1988    

 

 

 

the first HelpMate robot went to work at Danbury Hospital in Conneticut

 

1988    

 

 

 

K. Eric Drexler's Engines of Creation

 

1986    
 

Honda E0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1986    

 

 

 

the NASA Automation and Robotics Program

 

1985    

 

 

 

created by the General Robotics Corp. the RB5X was a programmable robo it had infrared sensors, romote audio/video transmission, bump sensors, and a voice synthesizer. It had software that could enable it to learn about its environment

 

1985    
 

the Omnibot 2000, a toy robot was created by the Tomy Kyogo Company Inc. It was controlled by a hand-held remote control or through programs stored on magnetic tape

 

 

1985    
 

Ichiro Kato created WABOT II that read music and plays an electronic organ

 

 

 

 

 

 

1984    

 

 

 

the Cyc project

 

1984    
 

Odex 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1984    
 

Ichiro Kata built the WL-10R it had more degrees of freedom then its predessor. It could walk laterally, turning and walking forward as well as backward. It could take a step every 4.4 seconds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1983    

 

 

 

the Heathkit Corporation designed Hero Jr. it was intented to be a home companion. It had an alarm clock, and it could sing several songs. Additional programs were stored on 250 cartridges

 

1982    
 

Canadarm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1981    
 

the Robotics Institute

 

1979    

 

 

 

SCARA

 

1978    
 

Unimation's Puma 560s

 

 

 

 

 

 

1978    

 

 

 

R2-D2, C-3PO

 

1977    
 

Kuka's Famulus

 

 

 

 

 

 

1973    
 

Mars 2 Prop-M Rover

 

 

 

 

1971    

 

 

 

Uncanny Valley

 

1970    
 

Shakey the Robot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1970    
 

the Stanford arm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1969    

 

 

 

HAL 9000

 

1968    
 

Surveyor 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

April 20, 1967    

 

 

 

chatbots

 

     
 

ELIZA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1966    
     

 

 

 

the first expert system, DENDRAL was created by a team at Stanford. The team was lead by Ed Feigenbaum. The robot was designed to execute the accumulated knowledge of experts

 

1965    
 

the Rancho-Arm

 

 

 

 

 

 

1963    

 

 

 

General Motors installed the first industrial robot, the Unimate, on a production line

 

1962    
 

Unimate

 

 

 

 

 

 

1961    

 

 

 

Evolutionary programming

 

1960    
 

Hopkins Beast

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1960    

 

 

 

John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky founded the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

1958    

 

 

 

Artificial intelligence

 

     

 

 

 

the Dartmouth Summer Research Conference on Artificial Intelligence

 

1956    

 

 

 

Industrial robotics

 

1954    
 

a teleoperator-equipped articulated arm was designed by Raymond Goertz for the Atomic Energy Commission

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1951    
 

the Turing test

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1950    

 

 

 

I, Robot

 

1950    
 

the Transistor was invented at Bell Telephone Laboratories by John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain, and William Bradford Shockley

 

 

 

December 1947    
 

the ENIAC short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was the first all-electronic computer designed to be Turing-complete

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

February 1946    

 

 

 

George Devol patented a general purpose playback device for controlling machines using magnetic recordings

 

1946    

 

 

 

cruise missiles

 

1944    

 

 

 

the Three Laws of Robotics

 

 

   

 

 

 

the word robotics was first used in print by Isaac Asimov, in his science fiction short story Runaround

 

1941    

 

 

 

cybernetics

 

1940s    
 

Goliath tracked mine

 

 

 

 

 

1940    
 

Elektro and Sparko

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1940    
 

Charly Chaplin's Modern Times

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1936    
 

Metropolis

 

 

 

 

 

 

1927    
 

Rossum's Universal Robots is a science fiction play by Karel Čapek which introduced and popularized the term robot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1921    

 

 

 

Unmanned aerial vehicles

 

1917    

 

 

 

automatic household machines

 

early 20th century    
 

Boilerplate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1893    

 

 

 

Frank Reade Jr. built the Electric Man which is more-or-less an electric version of the Steam Man

 

1885    

 

 

 

John Brainerd creates the Steam Man apparently used to pull things

 

1865    
 

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1818    

 

 

 

industrial automation

 

     
 

the Jacquard loom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1801    
 

The Turk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1770    
 

Jacques de Vaucanson's Digesting Duck

 

 

 

 

 

 

1739    
 

Leonardo's robot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1495    
 

the Lullian Circle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1305    
 

Al-Jazari's Automata

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1205    
 

the automata of Ancient Greece

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     
 

in Greek mythology, Hephaestus (the god of metal work) created mechanical

servants, including intelligent female slaves and automated furniture