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During the Industrial Revolution, humans developed the structural engineering capability to control electricity so that machines could be powered with small motors. In the early 20th century, the notion of a humanoid machine was developed. The first uses of modern robots were in factories as industrial robots.
Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) opened in London. This is the first use of the word "robot" in English. [44] 1920-1925 Wilhelm Lenz and Ernst Ising created and analyzed the Ising model (1925) [45] which can be viewed as the first artificial recurrent neural network (RNN) consisting of neuron-like threshold elements. [9]
First human killed by a robot Robert Nicholas Williams (May 2, 1953 – January 25, 1979) was an American factory worker who was the first known human to be killed by a robot . While working at the Ford Motor Company's Michigan Casting Center , Williams was struck and killed by the arm of a robotic transfer vehicle.
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In 1926, Westinghouse Electric Corporation created Televox, the first robot put to useful work. In the 1930s, they created a humanoid robot known as Elektro for exhibition purposes, including the 1939 and 1940 World's Fairs. [10] [11] Unimate was the first industrial robot, [3] which worked on a General Motors assembly line in New Jersey in 1961.
Kenji Urada (c. 1944 – July 4, 1981) was a Japanese factory worker who was killed by a robot.Urada is often incorrectly reported to be the first person killed by a robot, [1] [2] but Robert Williams, a worker at the Ford Motor Company's Michigan Casting Center, had been killed by a robot over two years earlier, on January 25, 1979.
The U.S. Secret Service has enlisted a new team member to help protect President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach: Robotic dogs. The robots are made by Massachusetts-based ...
A team of Earth-based doctors have performed the first ever remote-controlled surgery in space using a robot aboard the International Space Station (ISS).. The successful procedure, which saw ...