Robotics Timeline

By dustin.cuevas5

  • Robot Boat

    Robot Boat
    Nikola Tesla builds and

    demonstrates a remote

    controlled robot boat

  • ASIMO

    ASIMO
    Honda builds Asimo

  • Playback Device

    Playback Device
    George Devol patents a

    playback device for controlling machines.

  • ELIZA

    ELIZA
    ELIZA is created at MIT
    by Joseph Weizenbaum.

  • Star Wars

    Star Wars
    Star Wars is released.

    George Lucas' movie about
    a universe governed
    by the force introduces watchers

    to R2-D2 and C-3PO. The movie
    creates the strongest image of a
    human future with robots since the 1960's
    and inspires a generation of researchers.

  • AIBO

    AIBO
    SONY releases the AIBO ERS-7

  • Dante

    Dante
    Dante an 8-legged walking

    robot developed at
    Carnegie Mellon University

  • Pathfinder Mission

    Pathfinder Mission
    Lands on mars

  • MINDSTORMS

    MINDSTORMS
    LEGO releases the

    MINDSTORMS Robotics
    Invention SystemTM 2.0

  • A Space Odyssey

    A Space Odyssey
    Stanley Kubrick makes

    Arthur C. Clark's, 2001:
    A Space Odyssey into a

    movie. It features HAL, an onboard

    computer that decides it doesn't need
    its human counterparts any longer.