1979 – “Rodney” Self-Programming Robot – David L. Heiserman (American)

"Rodney", the Self-Programming Robot is based on the book How to Build Your Own Self-Programming Robot by David L. Heiserman [TAB, 1979]. ByRamiro Molinaon September 18, 2013  This book is geared towards those that have good knowledge of electronics and are willing to jump into a project that involves CPU based control. It outlines how to …

1967 – “Shakey” – Charles Rosen, Nils Nilsson, Bertram Raphael et al (American)

Charles Rosen with "Shakey" c1970. Shakey is one of the more well known and documented autonomous automaton.  With the then more topical name of "Artificial Intelligence", the "Cybernetic" world starts to lose favour. We are now entering the era of "Intelligent Automata". The research proposal for "APPLICATION OF INTELLIGENT AUTOMATA TO RECONNAISSANCE" presented on 22 …