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 …