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Drebbel's
temperature regulator for a furnace -
Jacquard's
automated loom using punched cards -
Charles Babbage invents his Analytical Engine.
Regarded as many as the first computer, it has memory and program control capabilities -
Electricity is starting to be supplied to US homes
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Heinrich Hertz generates radio waves for the first time
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Henry Ford installs the world’s first moving conveyor belt-based assembly line in his car factory. A Model T can be assembled by people in 93 minutes.
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The first electronic computer is built
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devols
programable robot arm -
Silicon solar cells with 6% efficiency made
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The inertial navigation system is invented which provides accurate information on the position of a body moving in space such as an aeroplane or spacecraft
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Unimate - an industrial robot
moves tool and picks up heavy things -
The integrated circuit is invented. This allows computers to be made much smaller (microcomputers)
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Unisurf
CAD/CAM system -
lunokhod
a rover sent to explore the moon -
shakey, a mobile robot
the first mobile robot -
The transistor, a vital part of today's electronic systems, was invented
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The shuttle remote manipulator system
find things in space -
The introduction of the PC to homes and offices and the development of software such as design packages
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The robotic vacuum cleaner
Roomba -
The first smartphone is invented
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Centibots
teams of autonomous robots -
H.U.B.O
A prototype for another project
