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Already then, the term robot does not necessarily equate to one specific form or preconception. If these examples do indeed constitute a robot or robots, then that already conflicts with the staple of the bipedal mechanism we sometimes assume when we talk and think about these creations. So what of the anthropomorphic robot? It is believed that the first ever real attempt to re-create a person’s actions and thought processes through the implementation of a computer system’s AI (Artificial Intelligence ) lay within “SHAKEY”, a robot developed by SRI International in 1970. SHAKEY was deployed via a problem-solving program called STRIPS. It used various sensors to assimilate information about its surroundings and environment, SRI’s Shakey, the first mobile robot that could make decisions about how to move in its surroundings Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported and was able to calculate how to navigate the corridors of the company’s headquarters. The sensors included a TV camera; a laser range 7 finder and bump sensors to establish the limit of its negotiable parameters.5