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                                                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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