The word robot originates from the Czech word ROBOTA, meaning 'serf' or 'slave'. Karel Capek drama - Rossum's Universal Robots. (R.U.R.) 1921.
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Talos mythical golden robot built by Hephaistos was fabled to roam the island of Crete |
222BC Ktesibios/Tesibuis. Water clocks and regulators. |
10-70 Heron of Alexandria. Self opening temple doors, theatrical robots |
1200 al-Jazari. Named after region in Iraq. Boat full of musical automata for drinks party! |
1515 Leonardo da Vinci's Lion (Codex Atlanticus) |
1739 Vaucanson's Duck |
1770's Jaquet-Droz 'scribe'. Clockwork automa capable of writing, drawing and playing music. |
1770 The Turk ( von Kempelen) - Certainly a good example of telemanipulation! |
1817 Frankenstein - Mary Shelly influenced by Jaquet-Droz automata! |
1864 US patent with the word "Android" |
1920 R.U.R published |
1927 Metropolis (Fitts Lang) |
1929 Gakutensoku Japan's first robot |
1937 Electro/Elektro - Westinghouse (later appears in 'sex kittens go to college' 1960) |
1940's Mechanically coupled 'master-slave' manipulators. (Goertz) |
1949 Grey Walter's robots (Elmer and Elsie) |
1952 Astro boy |
1954 First patent - George C. Devol, Jr. |
1960 General Electric Handyman/Hardyman. (Mosher) |
1966 Shakey |
1969 General Electric Walking truck. |
1959 Unimation Inc. introduce first industrial robot. |
1969 Stanford Arm- Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. |
1980's NASA Canada arm |
1996 First Mars mobile robot |
2004 Second Mars rover (Spirit survives to March 2010, Opportunity still going) |
2005 DARPA Grand challenge |
2008 MOD Grand challenge |
2012 DARPA robotics challenge/Curiosity rover lands on Mars |
2016 Rubics cube solved in 0.9 seconds |
2016 Jibo, first social robot for the home, due to be released |
20xx First cyborg, first robot to give evidence in court, first robot to be confused for a human. |
Show Pettit Mal video
Book list at http://www.reading.ac.uk/~shshawin/LN/intro_robotics_bib.html
Much material on youtube use search terms from the lecture notes, e.g. "Big Dog", "Google car" etc |