Robotics Module 1

Question 1

In what year did Joseph Jacquerd invent the textile machine that is operated by punch cards?

Answer 1

1801

Question 2

In what year did the US Seward Babbit designed a motorized crane with a gripper to remove ingots from a furnace?

Answer 2

1892

Question 3

First reference to the word robot appears in what play in London, 1921?

Answer 3

Rossums Universal Robot

Question 4

He formulates the Three laws of Robotics

Answer 4

Isaac Asimovs

Question 5

In 1946, he patented a general purpose playback device for controlling machines

Answer 5

George David

Question 6

In 1948, he publishes Cybernetics

Answer 6

Norbert Wiener

Question 7

The first programmable robot was designed by George Devol in what year?

Answer 7

1954

Question 8

Created a wooden pigeon that can fly under steam or compressed air power

Answer 8

Archytas of Tarentum

Question 9

Credited as the father of pneumatics

Answer 9

Alexandria

Question 10

Improves on Ktesibios work

Answer 10

Heron of Alexandria

Question 11

Publishes a book on mechanical and automated devices heralded as the most complete collection of such information at the time

Answer 11

Al-Jarzai

Question 12

Created the Metal-Plated Warrior, a suit of armor that sits up, opens and closes its arms, moves its head, and opens its visor

Answer 12

Leonardo Da Vinci

Question 13

He credited with building the first real androids with human form

Answer 13

Hans Bullman

Question 14

Created the Lute Player Lady

Answer 14

Gianello Torriano

Question 15

Created a very lifelike mechanical beetle using his mathematical knowledge, resulting in witchcraft charges

Answer 15

John Dee

Question 16

Publishes a design for an artificial hand that uses mechanical muscles with an organic frame

Answer 16

Pare Ambroise

Question 17

He plotted a logarithmic scale along a single, straight 2-foot ruler

Answer 17

William Oughtred

Question 18

Invents the “Rechenuhr”

Answer 18

Wilhelm Schickard

Question 19

Built his own version of calculator, which is later was mass produced

Answer 19

Blaise Pascal

Question 20

Developed and perfected the binary system of arithmetic

Answer 20

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

Question 21

Installed a mechanical theatre at the Heilbrunn chateau

Answer 21

Lorenz Rosenegge

Question 22

Invented the three very lifelike clockwork automations

Answer 22

Jacques de Vaucanson

Question 23

Conducted his famous kite experiment and proved that lightning is a form of electricity

Answer 23

Benjamin Franklin

Question 24

Created a true writer machine capable of writing predetermined text or manually controlled by a letter board

Answer 24

Friedrich von Knauss

Question 25

Set up the first true factory, which is next to the River Derwent in Cromford

Answer 25

Richard Arkwright

Question 26

He built the Writer, a child figure that can write with spacing and punctuation and is controlled by a programmable mechanical computing device of impressive complexity

Answer 26

Pierre Jaquet-Droz