Robotics

Robotics

• Robotics is one branch of artificial intelligence that deals with the study of robots.

Timeline

• 77-100BC- A device known as "The Antikythera Device" was found between the islands of Crete and Kythera by a diver.
• 270BC- A Greek engineer named Ctesibus made organs and water clocks with movable figures.

Timeline

• 278-212BC Archimedes, a Greek mathematician, invented many mechanical systems that are used in robotics today.
• Medieval times-Automatons, human- like figures run by hidden mechanisms were used to deceive people.
• 1645- Blaise Pascal invented a clculating machine to help with taxes

Timeline

• 1709- Jacques de Vaucanson's created "The Duck."
• 1865- John Brainerd created the Steam man.
• 1921- The term robot was first used in a play like "R.U.R".
• Isaac Asimov wrote "Three Laws of Robotics."
• 1951- Raymond Goertz designed the first tele-operated articulated arm.

Timeline

• 1951- Raymond Goertz designed the first tele-operated articulated arm.
• 1965- Carnegie Mellon establishes the Robotics Institute.
• 1981- Shigeo Hirose deloped Titan 2.
• 1996- RoboTuna was created by David Barrett at MIT.
• 1999- Mitsubishi created a robot fish; Sony released the first robotic dog.

Timeline

• 2005- The Korean Institute of science and Technology created HUBO.

Changes in robotics

• Robotics has changed throughout history in that it started off low-key, but then as technology advanced robotics became made sophisticated.

Influences

• Melonee Wise, CEO of Unbounded Robotics
• Steve Cousins, CEO of Savioke and formerly of Willow Garage
• Brian Gerkey, CEO of the Open Source Robotics Foundation
• Henrik Christensen, KUKA Chair of Robotics at the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology

Influences

• Cynthia Breazeal, director of MIT Media Lab's Personal Robots Group
• Colin Angle, CEO of iRobot
• Rodney Brooks, founder of Rethink Robotics and Panasonic Professor of Robotics at MIT

https://youtu.be/1gu3z7w4Vc8

References

• http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what_is_rob...
• http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/robotics.html
• http://mentalfloss.com/article/13083/first-robot-created-400-bce-was-steam-...
• http://www.businessinsider.com/important-robotics-people-2014-6

References

• http://www.businessinsider.com/important-robotics-people-2014-6

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