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-In 520 BCE Daedalus made statues with the ability to walk and some that appeared to breathe. -In 500 BCE King-Shu of China created a flying magpie out of wood and bamboo. He also made a horse that worked using springs. -In 384 to 322 BCE Aristotle said “If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.” -In 350BCE the Greek Mathematician Archytas built a mechanical bird out of wood that ran off steam known as the Pigeon. -In 270 BCE Ctesibius created water organs and water clocks. He also created a mechanical bird that could sing and water-working figures that could move and drink. He -In 200 BCE Chinese artisans created an entire mechanical orchestra -In 10 AD to 100 AD The Hero of Alexandria designed many different automata in a book he wrote. -In 725 AD a Chinese engineer created the first true mechanical clock -In 1436 to 1476 it was supposed that Johannes Muller created an artificial eagle. -In 1452 to 1519 Leonardo da Vinci designed the first humanoid robot. He also created a -In 1629 to 1695 Christiaan Huygens made a machine showing the whole army fighting for the king of France. He also made small artisans imitating characteristics from four different trades. -In 1731 Maillard made automata of horses that worked by turning a handle. -In 1709 to 1782 Jacques de Vaucanson created a mechanical bird called The Duck that could eat, drink, move around in water and even digest food. -In 1721 to 1790 Pierre Jaquet-Doz created three dolls. One could play music, one could draw pictures, and one could write -In1800 to 1850 Joseph Faber created the Euphonia. This could produce sounds similar to a human voice, could sing, whisper, laugh and even answer questions. -In 1818 Margaret Shelley wrote a novel about the fictional character Frankenstein. This later came to the idea of the Frankenstein theory that machines will eventually turn on their masters. -In 1854 George Boole invented Boolean algebra that was very important later for robotics. -In1865 John Brainerd created the Steam Man

-In 1885 Frank Reade Jr. invented the electric man -In 1898 Nicola Tesla built and demonstrated a remote controlled robot boat -In 1913 Bertrand Russel and Alfred North Whitehead published Principia Mathematica. This contributed a lot to formal logic, which is important in programming. -In 1921 the word robot is first used in Karel Capek’s play called Rossum Universal Robots. -In 1937 to 1938 Westinghouse creates a humanoid robot that can walk, talk, and smoke called ELEKTRO -In 1941 Isaac Asimov created the word robotics to describe the technology of robots. -In 1941 Conrad Zuse created the first working program-controlled computer systems. -In 1942 Isaac Asimov created the three laws of Robotics in his short story Runabout 1.	A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2.	A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3.	A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. -In 1942 the first programmable mechanism was designed by Harold Roselund and Willard Pollard. It was paint sprayer designed for the De Vilbiss Company. -In 1946 George Devol patented a playback device for controlling machines. -In 1947 Walter Brattain accidentally created the first transistor while trying to find out how electrons reacted on the surface of a semiconductor -In 1948 W. Grey Walter created two turtle robots, Elmer and Elsie that would find their way to their charging stations when they got low on battery.