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Robots of the
United States include simple household robots such as Roomba to sophisticated autonomous aircraft such as the MQ-9 Reaper that cost 18 million dollars per unit.
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[2] The first industrial robot, robot company, and exoskeletons as well as the first dynamically balancing, organic, and nanoscale robots originate from the United States.
[3]
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History
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 .
[8]
[9]
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 .
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[11]
Unimate was the first
industrial robot ,
[3]
which worked on a
General Motors
assembly line in
New Jersey in 1961.
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[13]
It was created by
George Devol in the 1950s using his original patents. Devol, together with
Joseph F. Engelberger started
Unimation , the world's first robot manufacturing company.
[4]
In 2008 the
U.S. Air Force
174th Fighter Wing transitioned from
F-16 piloted planes to
MQ-9 Reaper
drones , which are capable
remote controlled or
autonomous flight, becoming the first all-robot attack squadron.
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[15]
Modern robots
Roomba
Mars Exploration Rover
Da Vinci Surgical System
MQ-8 Fire Scout
MQ-9 Reaper
SWORDS
Domestic
Entertainment
Medical
Military (offensive/multi-role)
Aerial
Terrestrial
Military (non-offensive)
Aerial
Terrestrial
Nanoscale
Walker
Non-autonomous (human operated)
These machines are human operated and not autonomous. Therefore, they do fit the classical description of a
robot .
Exoskeleton
Military
Research
Software
American robotics companies
See also
References
^
Reminiscing on the Roomba
^
a
b
The Rise Of The Droids
^
a
b
Nof, Shimon Y. (1999). Handbook of Industrial Robotics (2nd ed.).
John Wiley & Sons . pp. 3–5.
ISBN
978-0-471-17783-8 .
^
a
b
1961: The First Robot
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A Brief History of Exoskeletons
^
Smallest Robot
Archived December 9, 2008, at the
Wayback Machine
^ Cheney, Margaret (1989).
Tesla, man out of time . New York: Dorset Press.
ISBN
978-0-88029-419-5 .
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US 613809 , Tesla, Nikola, "Method of and apparatus for controlling mechanism of moving vessels or vehicles", published 1898-11-08
^
"Tesla - Master of Lightning" . PBS.org.
Archived from the original on 28 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-24 .
^
"Robot Dreams : The Strange Tale Of A Man's Quest To Rebuild His Mechanical Childhood Friend" . The Cleveland Free Times. Archived from
the original on October 23, 2007. Retrieved 2008-09-25 .
^ Scott Schaut (2006). Robots of Westinghouse: 1924-Today . Mansfield Memorial Museum.
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1961: Installation of the First Industrial Robot
^
Menzel, Peter ; Faith D'Aluisio (2000).
Robo sapiens: evolution of a new species . The MIT Press. pp.
186–189 .
ISBN
978-0-262-13382-1 .
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MQ-9 Reaper
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Unmanned Reapers bound for Iraq, Afghanistan
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Dexter Walks
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Building the Real Iron Man
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Building the Real Iron Man
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