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Chapter Profile
HISTORY OF ROBOTS
History?
But robots
were invented
recently. The first robot
was made in
3rd century BC,
around 2000
years ago.
In 1206, Al-Jazari In 1495, Leonardo Da Vinci
made mechanical made a Mechanical Knight
peacocks and a musical which could sit, walk, and
robot band. He is also move its jaw.
known as the Father of Artificial Intelligence
Medieval Robots.
Mechanical
peacocks
Mechanical
Knight
In 1738, Jacques de Vaucanson
designed the Digesting Duck which
could eat, digest, and excrete. The term ‘robots’ was
ˇ
used by Karel Capek for
the first time in 1921.
Digesting
Duck
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