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Ri man
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Snuggling Ifbot
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QRIO conducted the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
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Tmsuk's Banryu
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ApriAlpha
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Sony's SDR-4X |
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Fujitsu's Maron-1
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ASIMO is a humanoid robot
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| 1999 | |
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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. |
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Deep Blue became the first computer system to defeat a reigning world champion in a match under standard chess tournament time controls
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RoboTuna was created by David Barrett at MIT |
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| 1994-2002 | |
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Seiko's Monsieur
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Ambler
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| 1990 | |
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Robodoc performed a hip-replacement operation on a dog (1992 on a human patient) |
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| 1988 | |
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the first HelpMate robot went to work at Danbury Hospital in Conneticut |
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| 1988 | |
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| 1986 | |
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the NASA Automation and Robotics Program |
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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 |
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| 1985 | |
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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
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| 1985 | |
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Ichiro Kato created WABOT II that read music and plays an electronic organ
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| 1984 | |
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| 1984 | |
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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
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| 1983 | |
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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 |
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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 |
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| 1965 | |
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the Rancho-Arm
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| 1963 | |
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General Motors installed the first industrial robot, the Unimate, on a production line |
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| 1962 | |
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Hopkins Beast
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| 1960 | |
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John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky founded the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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the Dartmouth Summer Research Conference on Artificial Intelligence |
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| 1954 | |
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a teleoperator-equipped articulated arm was designed by Raymond Goertz for the Atomic Energy Commission
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| 1951 | |
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the Transistor was invented at Bell Telephone Laboratories by John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain, and William Bradford Shockley
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| December 1947 | |
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the ENIAC short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was the first all-electronic computer designed to be Turing-complete
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| February 1946 | |
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George Devol patented a general purpose playback device for controlling machines using magnetic recordings |
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| 1946 | |
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the word robotics was first used in print by Isaac Asimov, in his science fiction short story Runaround |
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| 1927 | |
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Rossum's Universal Robots is a science fiction play by Karel Čapek which introduced and popularized the term robot
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Frank Reade Jr. built the Electric Man which is more-or-less an electric version of the Steam Man |
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John Brainerd creates the Steam Man apparently used to pull things |
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| 1865 | |
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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| 1818 | |
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| 1801 | |
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| 1770 | |
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Jacques de Vaucanson's Digesting Duck
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the automata of Ancient Greece
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in Greek mythology, Hephaestus (the god of metal work) created mechanical servants, including intelligent female slaves and automated furniture
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