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Historical Development of Robot:

The beginning of robot may traced to the great greek engineer Ctesibius (270B.C.) Ctesibius applied a knowledge of pneumatics and hydraulics to produce the first organ and water clock by moving figures. Ctesibius’s disciple Philo of Byzantium (200B.C.) wrote Mechanical Collection describing Ctesibius work. Building on Ctesibius’s work , Hero of Alexandria (85 A.D.) wrote On Automatic Theaters, On Pneumatics, and On Mechanics and is recognized as the greatest Greek engineer. Hero, famous for invention of steam engine, presented the first well documented, workable robot outside of mythology.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) followed in hero’s footsteps, studying everything he could obtain on his work. He was actively engaged in verifying Greek reconstructions, an actively that no doubt inspired him to devise water powered organs and clocks equipped with jacquemart for striking the hours. Another automation that Leonardo was surely was aware of was the famous Strasbourg cock which was in operation from 1352 to 1789.he also developed a leaf spring powered car as proper source of actuating wings, and probably as the propulsion system for an automation.
Nikola Tesla(1856-1943), drawing inspiration from Leonardo da Vinci, Tesla shared his hero’s ability at spetial visualization and demonstrated a precocious ability to build model turbines and motor powered by bugs. In 1898 Tesla demonstrated a remote controlled submersible boat. It was controlled by coded pulses via Hertzian waves (i.e. radio controlled).
The play RUR (Russums Universal Robots) was written by Carl Capek and made its 1921 premier in Prague, Czecoslovakia (Capek 1973). Starting as ideal workers, the robots, (the play introduced the word robot) have emotions added to them to increase their productivity. A variation on the theme put forth in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstien recurs when the robots turn on their creators and destroy them. The play ends with an interesting twist: a robot couple is presented as the successor of humans. The play present the duality of technology, the threat vs the promise, through the concept of the perfect worker – the robot. From this points on the robots have been perceived as both a savior and a potential enemy of mankind. Since the advent of this play , robots have achieved their own unique identity. This is reflected in the appearance of robots built for fairs, explosions and movies. No longer made to copy the outward appearance of man, they have become a hybrid- functioning as a human while appearing as a machine.
The word 'robotics' was first used in Runaround, a short story published in 1942, by Isaac Asimov (born Jan. 2, 1920, died Apr. 6, 1992). I, Robot, a collection of several of these stories, was published in 1950.

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  1. saraanblogsDecember 20, 2018 at 5:05 PM

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