🤖 Who was the first robot in history? Jacques de Vaucanson
History of the beginnings of robotics and robots
In the year 1738, the first robotic pet in history, or the first automaton, appeared. It was made by Jacques de Vaucanson, who from a very young age, and despite the poverty in which he lived, surprised everyone with his creative capacity.
It was so that one day in the church he carefully observed the operation of the chapel clock. He managed to make a similar one a few weeks later.
The manufacture of the watch was the inspiration for what would come later. It seems that Vaucanson intended to create the first robots in history, which seemed real.
Vaucanson focused his efforts on making a duck that ate grains, digested them, and most amazingly, excreted them.
The first robot in history. Jacques de Vaucanson’s Duck
Modern pets and robots
Imagen: http://pinktentacle.com/2006/03/hiroshima-engineers-develop-robotic-carp/
The robot dog
Pleo the robot dinosaur
Ugobe, a robotics company located in California, launched the Pleo mascot on the market in 2006, pictured above, a dinosaur that looks like a baby, capable of detecting sound, day, night, light, movement and touch thanks to the almost forty sensors distributed throughout its body, to the eight processors that can handle up to sixty million operations per second, which allows this little dinosaur to be able to interact in a “real” way with human beings, always and when I have battery
