HISTORY OF ROBOTICS

CTESIBIUS WATER CLOCKS

• Ctesibius, a Greek inventor and mathematician in Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egypt during 2000 BCE
• , the Greeks divided the time between sunrise and sunset into 12 day hours, and the time between sunset and sunrise into 12 nighttime hours. The time between sunrise and sunset is much shorter during the winter. He fixed this problem by marking the hours with curved lines on a drum. He then created a mechanism that reset the hour pointer every day ,also turned the drum so the lines matched the season.

Nikola Tesla's rc boat

• invented in1898
• Worlds first RC boat to using radio waves
• The boat was four feet long having three antennas with small light bulbs to be easily seen at night
• Inside the boat's hull, there was an electric motor driving both the propeller and rudder, a storage battery and a mechanism for receiving the radio signals sent from the control box.

Shakey

• The first mobile robot with the ability to perceive and reason about its surroundings
• The subject of SRI's Artificial Intelligence Center research from 1966 to 1972, Shakey could perform tasks that required planning, route-finding, and the rearranging of simple objects.

ASIMO

• is a humanoid robot designed and developed by Honda in 1999.
• multi-functional mobile assistant
• Can walk or run up to speeds of 3.7mph

AIBO

• is an iconic series of robotic pets designed and manufactured by Sony for 1999 to 2005
• AIBOs were marketed for domestic use as "Entertainment Robots"

FURBY

• A Furby is an American electronic robotic toy released in 1998 by Tiger Electronics.
• Its speaking capabilities were translated into 24 languages.
• Furbies were the first successful attempt to produce and sell a domestically-aimed robot

ROBOTUNA

• The project started in 1993 by MIT. Their aim was to investigate the possibility of constructing a robotic submarine that could reproduce the way tunas swim and see if they could find a superior system of propulsion for the AUVs.

SOFT GRIPPER

• Shigeo Hirose´s Soft Gripper robot can conform to the shape of a grasped object, such as a wine glass filled with flowers. The design Hirose created at the Tokyo Institute of Technology grew from his studies of flexible structures in nature, such as elephant trunks and snake spinal cords.
• Created1976

EPOSOM Micro-robot

• release the smallest known robot, standing 7cm high and weighing just 10 grams.
• propellers powered by a tiny ultrasonic motor to achieve balanced mid-air flight

ROOMBA

• Roomba has a set of basic sensors that enable it perform its tasks.
• the Roomba is able to change direction on encountering obstacles, to detect dirty spots on the floor, and to sense steep drops to keep it from falling down stairs
• september 2002

kismet

• Kismet is a robot head made in the late 1998 in MIT by Dr. Cynthia Breazeal as an experiment in affective computing; a machine that can recognize and simulate emotions
• Facial expressions are created through movements of the ears, eyebrows, eyelids, lips, jaw, and head

Packbots

• The 18 kg robot can be carried in a backpack, and deployed in a few minutes
• iRobot Packbots searched through the rubble of the world Trade Center. Subsequent versions of the Packbot robots are used in Afghanistan and Iraq
• rough terrain and obstacles such as stairs, rocks, logs, rubble and debris

Cye robot

• 1999 Personal Robots released the Cye robot. It performed a variety of household chores, such as delivering mail, carrying dishes, and vacuuming etc. It was created by Probotics Inc

Collie1

• 1985 A four legged walking machine, Collie1, was developed by H. Miura at the University of Tokyo. The machine had 3 degrees of freedom per leg

Aquarobot

• in 1989 this walking robot for undersea use, was created at the Robotics Laboratory at the Ministry of Transport in Japan.
• six-legged articulated "insect type" walking machine. Each leg has three articulations, and they are driven semi-directly by DC motors inside the leg.

RB5X

• 1985 Created by the General Robotics Corp. the RB5X was a programmable robot equipped with infrared sensors, remote audio/video transmission, bump sensors, and a voice synthesizer. It had software that could enable it to learn about its environment

T3

• 1973 Cincinnati Milacron released the T3, the first commercially available minicomputer-controlled industrial robot (designed by Richard Hohn).

SDR

• 2000 Sony unveiled the Sony Dream Robots (SDR) at Robodex. SDR was able to recognize 10 different faces, expresses emotion through speech and body language, and can walk on flat as well as irregular surfaces. Image of QRIO [

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• http://www.robotshop.com/media/files/PDF/timeline.pdf
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_robots
• http://robotics.megagiant.com/history.html
• google images