American robotics
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Robots of the United States include simple household robots such as Roomba to sophisticated autonomous aircraft such as the MQ-9 Reaper that cost 18 million dollars per unit.[1][2] The first industrial robot, robot company, and exoskeletons as well as the first dynamically balancing, organic, and nanoscale robots originate from the United States.[3][4][5][6]
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History
In 1898 Nikola Tesla publicly demonstrated a radio-controlled torpedo.[7] Based on patents for "teleautomation", Tesla hoped to develop it into a weapon system for the US Navy.[8][9]
In 1926, Westinghouse Electric Corporation created Televox, the first robot put to useful work. In the 1930s, they created a humanoid robot known as Elektro for exhibition purposes, including the 1939 and 1940 World's Fairs.[10][11]
Unimate was the first industrial robot,[3] which worked on a General Motors assembly line in New Jersey in 1961.[12][13] It was created by George Devol in the 1950s using his original patents. Devol, together with Joseph F. Engelberger started Unimation, the world's first robot manufacturing company.[4]
In 2008 the U.S. Air Force 174th Fighter Wing transitioned from F-16 piloted planes to MQ-9 Reaper drones, which are capable remote controlled or autonomous flight, becoming the first all-robot attack squadron.[2][14][15]
Modern robots
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Domestic
- Roomba a vacuum cleaner
- Scooba a floor washer
- Looj a rain gutter cleaner
Entertainment
Extraterrestrial
- ATHLETE lunar rover
- Mars Exploration Rover
Medical
Military (offensive/multi-role)
Aerial
Terrestrial
- Black Knight unmanned tank
- Gladiator tactical unmanned ground vehicle
- MarkV-A1
- MULE / XM1219
- PackBot / SUGV
- TALON
Military (non-offensive)
Aerial
Terrestrial
Nanoscale
Walker
- BigDog dynamically balancing quadruped
- Anybots Dexter, the first dynamically balancing biped [16]
- Timberjack Walking Machine logger
Non-autonomous (human operated)
These machines are human operated and not autonomous. Therefore, they do fit the classical description of a robot.
Exoskeleton
Military
Research
- Tufts University morphing chemical robot Tufts to develop morphing 'chemical robots'
Software
- Microsoft Robotics Studio - .NET based
- VxWorks - operating system, notably used by ASIMO
- Robot App Store - Apps for every robot
American robotics companies
- Anybots
- Barrett Technology
- Berkshire Grey
- Bluefin Robotics
- Boston Dynamics
- Brooks Automation
- Cobalt Robotics
- Cobot Nation
- Diligent Robotics
- Energid Technologies
- Evolution Robotics
- Fetch Robotics
- Foster-Miller
- Harvest Automation
- Hydroid
- Inspectorbots
- Intuitive Surgical
- iRobot
- Kiva Systems
- Locus Robotics
- Mitsubishi Electric Automation - Robotics
- Myomo (myoelectric prosthetics)
- Rethink Robotics
- Savioke
- SuperDroid Robots
- Vecna Robotics
- Vishwa Robotics
- Willow Garage
See also
- Japanese robotics
- Robots in warfare
- Shadow Hand British Robotics company
- Underwater robot
- Drone
- Terminator, movie about artificial intelligence