One of the first robots that was ever made was the robot Clepsydra, or water clock,
which was made in 250 B.C. It was created by Ctesibius of Alexandria, A Greek physicist and
inventor. Back to the modern world, the first remote control vehicles were built by Nikola Tesla
in the 1890's. Tesla is best known as the inventor of AC alectric power, radio (before Marconi),
induction motors and Tesla coils, and other electrical devices. Some of the other early robots
(1940's-1950's) were Grey Walter’s “Elsie the Tortoise”, and john Hopkins “Beast.” “Shakey”
was a small unstable box on wheels that used memory and logical reasoning to solve problems
and navigate in its environment. It was developed by the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in
Palo Alto, California in the 1960s. The General Electric Walking Truck was a large (3000
pounds) four legged robot that could walk up to four miles and hour. The walking truck was the
first legged vehicle with a computer-brain,......
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