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Posted on February 23rd, 2009
Andrey Mikhalchuk
Unimate was the first industrial robot, which worked on a General Motors assembly line in New Jersey, in 1961. It was created by George Devol in the 1950s using his original patents. Devol, together with Joseph Engelberger started Unimation, the world’s first robot manufacturing company.
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Posted on February 23rd, 2009
Andrey Mikhalchuk
KITT is the short name of a fictional character on the adventure TV series Knight Rider. KITT is an artificial intelligence electronic computer installed in a highly advanced, very mobile, robot in the form of a 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am.
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Posted on February 23rd, 2009
Andrey Mikhalchuk
Elektro is the nickname of a robot built by the Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric Corporation in its Mansfield, Ohio facility between 1937 and 1938. He also appeared as “Thinko”, in a 1960 film, Sex Kittens Go to College.
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Posted on February 23rd, 2009
Andrey Mikhalchuk
BIG TRAK / bigtrak was the programmable electric vehicle created by Milton Bradley in 1979. It was a six-wheeled tank with a front-mounted blue photon beam headlamp, and a keypad on top.
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Posted on February 23rd, 2009
Andrey Mikhalchuk
ASIMO is a humanoid robot created at Honda’s Research & Development Wako Fundamental Technical Research Center in Japan.
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