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Robotic Timeline
Robotic Timeline
Vinic - 1945
Designed
and
possibly
built the
first robot
1801
Automate
d
machines
1920-1940
Developm
ent of
automate
d
productio
n lines.
1940
1947
First
electronic
computing
machine
1960
First
industri
al robot
1954
Transistor
developed
1961
First
microchi
p
First
programm
able robot
1962
First
industri
al robot
on a
producti
on line
1976
Robot arms
used on
viking 1 and
11 space
probes
1977
microcompu
ters control
introduced
to robotics
1980
A new
robotic
company
enters the
market
every
month