PART 1: SYSTEM
START-UP
What is a Robot?
The Oxford English
defines a Robot as:
Dictionary
“A machine capable of carrying out
a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by a com-puter”.
If we are to apply the credence of
“a machine carrying out a complex series of actions automatically”, constituting a robot, then it
can be argued that the first robot
ever devised - according to information currently available - was a
mechanical bird-like feature constructed out of wood in circa 400BC
by Archytas - regarded by some to
be the Father of Mechanical Engineering.1 Amongst other additions
to this new race, this ethos was
then consolidated in 1495 with the
first ever faux-humanoid robot,
built and devised by none other
than Leonardo Da Vinci.
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