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Steam engines promoted automation through the need to control engine speed and power.. The introduction of prime movers, or self-driven machines advanced grain mills, furnaces, boilers, and the steam engine created a new requirement for automatic control systems including temperature regulators (invented in 1624; see Cornelius Drebbel), pressure regulators (1681), float regulators (1700) and ...
Televox and creator R. J. Wensley, 1928. In 1898 Nikola Tesla publicly demonstrated a radio-controlled torpedo. [7] Based on patents for "teleautomation", Tesla hoped to develop it into a weapon system for the US Navy.
In 1986, Honda began its humanoid research and development program to create robots capable of interacting successfully with humans. [91] A hexapodal robot named Genghis was revealed by MIT in 1989. Genghis was famous for being made quickly and cheaply due to construction methods; Genghis used 4 microprocessors, 22 sensors, and 12 servo motors ...
Around the turn of the 20th century, American industry had superseded its European counterparts economically and the nation began to assert its military power. Although the Great Depression challenged its technological momentum , America emerged from it and World War II as one of two global superpowers .
First National Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) held at Stanford. 1981 Danny Hillis designs the connection machine, which utilizes parallel computing to bring new power to AI, and to computation in general. (Later founds Thinking Machines Corporation) 1982
Joseph Frederick Engelberger (July 26, 1925 – December 1, 2015) was an American physicist, engineer and entrepreneur. Licensing the original patent awarded to inventor George Devol, Engelberger developed the first industrial robot in the United States, the Unimate, in the 1950s.
The automation of machine tool control began in the 19th century with cams that "played" a machine tool in the way that cams had long been playing musical boxes or operating elaborate cuckoo clocks. Thomas Blanchard built his gun-copying lathes (1820s–30s), and the work of people such as Christopher Miner Spencer developed the turret lathe ...
Japanese engineer Kenjiro Takayanagi began a research program on electronic television. [14] 1925: Austrian American engineer Julius Edgar Lilienfeld patented the first FET (which became popular much later). 1926: Yagi–Uda antenna was developed by the Japanese engineers Hidetsugu Yagi and Shintaro Uda. 1926