Category Archives: Robot History
Stanford Cart
1960 – 1980
1979 – first computer-controlled autonomous vehicle
Sparko
Elektro
1937
- built by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation
- Seven feet tall
- 265 pounds
- could walk by voice command
- speak about 700 words (using a 78-rpm record player)
- smoke cigarettes
- blow up balloons
Dog Sparko