EVOLUTION!!

                                  

                                   
                                    Even though everyone is familiar about Robots, no one can ever give a proper definition to the word “Robots”. The origin of this idea of ‘artificial humanoid machine’ is still unknown. It is a bit crazy fact that, the idea of developing some electronic machine that can replace many of the manual hazardous labors, definitely originated in the mind of a lazy guy!  It was developed for the sake of simplifying some complex tasks and to manage hazardous working environments.

                                    Evidences shows that, the idea of robots originated in the period of ancient civilization itself. In ancient Greece, many of the scientists and philosophers including Archytas and Hero of Alexandria, introduced some discussions about controllable machines that can perform certain tasks and even invented some small automated machines. In the same period, similar kind of inventions and theories were becoming popular in ancient China and later on, in other places too. But all those were just some machines that could perform some simple dedicated tasks and they cannot be however, classified under the category of robots for what we define it today.

                                    Later, in the renaissance period, more developed forms of machines were introduced that could perform certain hazardous tasks and the basic ideas of today’s ‘automated humanoid machine’ were developed then. But all of them didn’t result in any successful working models and remained as just theories and researches. In fact, some simpler models of remote controllable devices which can be termed as the predecessors of today’s robots were developed in this period. Even though they had resemblance to the present day robots, they had several drawbacks.

                                    In the 17^th and 18^th centuries, there were wide discussions and researches based on robotics and many of the contemporary scientists put forward more automated machines including mechanical duck, artificial pigeon, and certain remotely controlled machines that had some resemblance to human beings.

                                    We could definitely state that this branch of science strengthened in the 20^th century. The first robot developed for the purpose of doing useful work, Televox, was introduced in 1926, by Westinghouse Electric Corporation. It was followed by a series of such simpler robots, all manufactured by the same company. Then, several such inventions were made worldwide in the same period for different purposes.

                                   The first electronic automated robots were developed in 1940’s. The modern Robot, the digitally operating and program controllable one, ‘Unimate’ was developed by George Devol. It was later used for commercial purposes by installing it in an industrial plant in New Jersey. Devol took the patent for the first digitally operated robotic arm and it was later declared as the foundation of modern robotics industry. And later on, more and more new inventions were made in this field.  Still, researches are going on, in Robotics, to meet more challenging and complex requirements.