NINTH WRITING

ROBOTS

Robotic has been evolving during the last years. In the next lines I’m going to explain its growth.

The first robot created in the History was called ELSIE (Electro-Light-Sensitive Internal-External) made in England in 1953. This robot simply followed a light using a mechanic system without incorporating additional intelligence. Some years later, the Standford Research Institute created the robot SHACKEY, which contained a vision camera, tactile sensors and it could move around the floor. In the 1970s the NASA cooperated with a laboratory, and both created the MARS-ROVER, with cameras, sensors and laser. Ten years later appeared two more robots: CARL and CMU-ROVER, with orientation, images processor, more and best cameras.

Nowadays, the robotic gets ambitious models of robots. Some examples of this kinds of robots are IT, COG, SOUJOURNER or the LUNAR ROVER. More specific robots are the CYPHER, which is a military helicopter, ANZEN TARO, a Japanese traffic guard or the pet robots of SONY.

This is the beginning of the “Robotic Era”.