Robotics Timeline by https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv From 3500 BC to 2015 en-us 2018-02-18 12:00:50 UTC 2018-02-19 11:12:59 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Watchclock.png geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232678303 3500 B.C.E. The Greek myths of Hephaestus and Pygmalion incorporate the idea of intelligent mechanisms. ]]> 2018-02-18 12:14:52 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232678303 100 C.E. Egyptian inventor Hero of Alexandria designs various automata for theater and temple use and details the workings of his automatic devices in his work Automata geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232678538 2018-02-18 12:17:23 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232678538 725 AD Liang Lingzan and Buddhist monk Yi Xing build a water-driven device with the worlds first clockwork escapement mechanism - the first true mechanical clock geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232703897 2018-02-18 15:39:13 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232703897 1801 French inventor Joseph Jacquard builds an automated loom controlled by punch cards geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232704295 2018-02-18 15:42:15 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232704295 1833 Charles Babbage begins work on his 'Analytical Engine' one of the first computational machines geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232704499 2018-02-18 15:43:51 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232704499 geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232704694 1890 Nikola Tesla creates the first remote controlled vehicles]]> 2018-02-18 15:45:19 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232704694 1926 The film, Metropolis, features the first movie robot 'Maria geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232705026 2018-02-18 15:47:37 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232705026 1936 Alan Turing introduces the concept of a theoretical computer called the Turing Machine geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232705366 2018-02-18 15:49:41 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232705366 1939 Electro, a 7 foot tall walking, talking, smoking, mechanical man appears at the New York's World Fair geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232705659 2018-02-18 15:51:50 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232705659 1951 Raymond Goertz designs the first remotely controlled articulated arm for the Atomic Energy Conmmission geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232705875 2018-02-18 15:53:41 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232705875 1959 John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky start the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232706073 2018-02-18 15:55:04 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232706073 1950 Alan Turing tries to determine whether a machine can think for itself -Turing Test geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232706457 2018-02-18 15:57:43 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232706457 1727 Albert Magnus, philosopher and alchemist coins the word 'android'. geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232706758 2018-02-18 15:59:36 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232706758 1760 Friedrich von Knaus creates an android able to hold a pen and write 107 words geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232707192 2018-02-18 16:02:22 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232707192 1962 The first Unimate robot installed in a General Motors plant, controlled by step-by-step commands stored on a magnetic drum geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232708130 2018-02-18 16:07:41 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232708130 1964 Artificial Intelligence research laboratories are opened at MIT, Stanford Research Institute geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232708412 2018-02-18 16:09:28 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232708412 1964 AI research laboratories open at Stanford and Edinburgh universities geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232709469 2018-02-18 16:16:22 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232709469 1967 Richard Greenblatt writes MacHack, the first chess program to win against a person in a chess tournament geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232709685 2018-02-18 16:17:53 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232709685 1973 Cincinnati Milacron Corporation release the TR3 the first commercially available minicomputer controlled industrial robot geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232850955 2018-02-19 09:35:26 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232850955 1972 Robot arms are used on the Viking 1 and 2 space probes geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232852285 2018-02-19 09:40:45 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232852285 1979 Hans Moravec creates an autonomous vehicle, The Stanford Cart, that can navigate across a room full of obstacles geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232852466 2018-02-19 09:41:34 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232852466 1982 The film, Blade Runner, features androids that are 'more human than human'. geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232852837 2018-02-19 09:43:00 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232852837 1989 The Mobile Robots Group creates , Genghis, a walking robot geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232853113 2018-02-19 09:44:18 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232853113 1992 Neurosurgeon John Adler invents the Cyberknife, a robot that images a patient and delivers a pre-planned dose of radiation geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232853525 2018-02-19 09:45:56 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232853525 1995 General Atomics develops an unmanned Predator drone geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232853920 2018-02-19 09:47:31 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232853920 1997 Pathfinder Mission lands on Mars returning 2.3 billion bits of information and 17,000 images geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232872429 2018-02-19 10:52:40 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232872429 2000 United Nations estimates that there are 742,500 industrial robots in use world wide geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232872750 2018-02-19 10:53:58 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232872750 2001 iRobot PackBot is used to search the World Trade Center, after September 11th attacks geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232873007 2018-02-19 10:55:08 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232873007 2005 A team at Cornell University builds the first replicating robot geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232873901 2018-02-19 10:57:08 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232873901 2011 Robonaut 2 is launched into space on the shuttle Discovery to become a permanent resident of the International Space Station geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232874180 2018-02-19 10:58:07 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232874180 2012 First driverless car is licensed in Nevada geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232874668 2018-02-19 11:00:02 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232874668 2014 HitchBOT a robot created by Canadian researchers, 'hitchhikes' across Canada and Europe to explore cultural attitudes toward social robotics. geoff_green1 https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232874897 But destroyed in Philadephia in 2015]]> 2018-02-19 11:00:58 UTC https://padlet.com/geoff_green1/8p4cnwq3ubxv/wish/232874897