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2000

ASIMO – Advanced Step in Innovative MObility

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ASIMO is a humanoid robot created by Honda. Standing at 130 centimeters (4 feet 3 inches) and weighing 54 kilograms (114 pounds), the robot resembles a small astronaut wearing a backpack and can walk or run on two feet at speeds up to 6 km/h. ASIMO was created at Honda’s Research & Development Wako Fundamental Technical Research Center in Japan, and was unveiled i 2000.

Officially, the name is an acronym for “Advanced Step in Innovative MObility” and not a reference to science fiction writer and inventor of the Three Laws of Robotics, Isaac Asimov.

Asimo represented state of the art robotics i 2000 when it was first introduced. Amongst other things it has the capacity to recognition of moving objects, recognition of postures and gestures, recognizing its environments, distinguish sounds and recognize faces.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASIMO

1961

Mobot Mark II

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This robot, the Mobot Mark II, was developed in the early 1960s by Hughes Aircraft. It was built to work in hazardous materials sites considered too dangerous for people. But the Mobot was never put to work.

Mobot is an abbreviation of Mobile and Robot. The image is from a series of images made for Life Magazine in the early 1960s. The Mobot is portrayed as a personal helper assisting the woman in the images with dressing/undressing and painting her nails. The Mobot was teleoperated by an engineer and turned out not to be financially viable.

2002

Roomba

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The Roomba is an autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner made and sold by iRobot. Under normal operating conditions, it is able to navigate a living space and its obstacles while vacuuming the floor. The Roomba was introduced in 2002; as of January 2008, over 2.5 million units have been sold.

Various hardware interface devices are available to access the Roomba using the Roomba Open Interface and some projects are described on Roomba hacking sites. In response to this activity iRobot created the iRobot Create, which is a programmable robot of similar size and shape to the Roomba. [Wikipedia]

1985

R.O.B. – Robotic Operating Buddy

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R.O.B. (Robotic Operating Buddy) was an accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was released in July 1985 in Japan as the Famicom Robot and later that year as R.O.B. in North America. It had a short lifespan, with support for only two games which comprised the “Robot Series”; Gyromite and Stack-Up. R.O.B. was released with the intention of portraying the Nintendo Entertainment System as something novel in order to alleviate retail fears following a crash in the video game market in 1983. [Wikipedia]

1983

RB5X

Categories: Artificial Intelligence, Educational – Tags: , , , ,

The RB5X Intelligent Robot was the first mass-produced programmable robot that was made for home use, experimentation, and educational purposes. The RB5X is still being produced today.

Its inputs include eight bumper panels, a light sensor and a sound sensor. The robot can learn from experience:

“The RB5X Intelligent Robot is a sophisticated engineering effort whose microelectronics and machinery can be compared to the complex make-up of humans. Like a person, RB5X consists of a collection of subsystem “organs” that work together to make the robot function and become more than the sum of its parts, except that the comparatively crude organs consist of electronic and mechanical devices. Brain: RB5X brain is an on-board microprocessor, the INS8073 that works in conjunction with the robot’s software to permit the RB5X to learn from its sensory experiences. Using this self learning software, the RB5X progresses from simple, random responses to eventual prediction of future events in its environment, based on analysis of past prediction of future events in its environment, based on analysis of past experience.” – RB Robotics, manufacturer.