Robotics Module 1 Flashcards
Basics of Robotics
In what year did Joseph Jacquerd invent the textile machine that is operated by punch cards?
1801
In what year did the US Seward Babbit designed a motorized crane with a gripper to remove ingots from a furnace?
1892
First reference to the word robot appears in what play in London, 1921?
Rossums Universal Robot
He formulates the Three laws of Robotics
Isaac Asimovs
In 1946, he patented a general purpose playback device for controlling machines
George David
In 1948, he publishes Cybernetics
Norbert Wiener
The first programmable robot was designed by George Devol in what year?
1954
Created a wooden pigeon that can fly under steam or compressed air power
Archytas of Tarentum
Credited as the father of pneumatics
Alexandria
Improves on Ktesibios work
Heron of Alexandria
Publishes a book on mechanical and automated devices heralded as the most complete collection of such information at the time
Al-Jarzai
Created the Metal-Plated Warrior, a suit of armor that sits up, opens and closes its arms, moves its head, and opens its visor
Leonardo Da Vinci
He credited with building the first real androids with human form
Hans Bullman
Created the Lute Player Lady
Gianello Torriano
Created a very lifelike mechanical beetle using his mathematical knowledge, resulting in witchcraft charges
John Dee
Publishes a design for an artificial hand that uses mechanical muscles with an organic frame
Pare Ambroise
He plotted a logarithmic scale along a single, straight 2-foot ruler
William Oughtred
Invents the “Rechenuhr”
Wilhelm Schickard
Built his own version of calculator, which is later was mass produced
Blaise Pascal
Developed and perfected the binary system of arithmetic
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
Installed a mechanical theatre at the Heilbrunn chateau
Lorenz Rosenegge
Invented the three very lifelike clockwork automations
Jacques de Vaucanson
Conducted his famous kite experiment and proved that lightning is a form of electricity
Benjamin Franklin
Created a true writer machine capable of writing predetermined text or manually controlled by a letter board
Friedrich von Knauss
Set up the first true factory, which is next to the River Derwent in Cromford
Richard Arkwright
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
Pierre Jaquet-Droz
