This page is a timeline showing early Mobile Robots, events, and dates being the creation or announcement of these robots.
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Early Autonomous Mobile Robots
1953 – Beetle
1953 – Beetle
1962 – "Creep Mk-2"
1965 – Hexy
1967- Robot Fred & James (Archigram Concept)
1970 – Sam Newhouse – "BERT"
1971-4 – JASON 
1972 – SRI "Flakey"
1977 – "Mike" "Microtron" Todd Loofbourrow
1977 – "NEWT" by Rolf Hollis
1977 – "Hilare"
1978 – Peter Folk's Inexpensive Turtle
1979 – Heiserman – "Rodney"
1978 – "Tee Toddler"
1980 – Big Trak ( Big Track ) 
1980 – "Unicorn-1"
1981-3 – Pluto CMU Rover – Hans Moravec et al
1982c – "ROBART"
1982 – "RB5X"
1983 – "Kludge" by John M. Holland
1987c – "Herbert" by Brooks, Connell, Ning
Early Remote-Controlled Mobile Robots
1939 – "Teletank" R/C tank (Soviet)
194x – "Goliath" R/C mini-tank (German)
1952 – "Electron" -R/C-Car
Personal and Promotional Robots
1962 – "Emily" White-line follower by Dickman
1964 – Steam-Pudding (1st steam powered mobile r/c robot!)
1964 – "Fred" a light-seeking robot – Peter Holland
1966 – Dalek model
1969 – Seymour Papert & Minsky – LOGO Turtle
1969 – Hannaford – Meccano
1974-76 – Kaplan
1975-6 – R2-D2 (Star Wars) by John Stears
1978 – Mark-IV QMC
1978 – “Kermit” the Robot by Ron Milner and Larry Nicolson
1979 – Electromechanical Servant by Reynolds
1979 – Frank DaCosta – Robot Pet
1979 – "Hebot" John FitzGerald
1980-1 SuperKIM meets ET-2
1984 – FETAL I Omnidirectional Robot
Early Emergency Mobile Robots
1962 – Robot Fire Cart – Thring
Klin-1 (Soviet)
STR-1 (Soviet)
Mobot-Ch-HV (Soviet)