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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.
Artificial Intelligence peacocks and a musical In 1495, Leonardo Da Vinci
In 1206, Al-Jazari
made mechanical
made a Mechanical Knight
which could sit, walk, and
move its jaw.
robot band. He is also
known as the Father of
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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