Robot History

Robot History

1. Many movies showed that robots were harmful, menacing machines.

   • In Star Wars they portrayed robots as man's helpers.

2. The robots were made to look like humans called "androids."

3. First used in a play in 1920.

4. In 1956, George Devol I and Joseph Engelberger formed the worlds first robot company.

5. In 1994, Issac Asimov used the word "robotics."

6. In 1961, the first industrial robot to be employed .

7. Sophisticated robots are in use today.

8. Robots now are just computer controlled "arms and hands."