In 1968, the Stanford Institute announced the success of their robot Shakey. It has a vision sensor that can find and grab bricks according to people's instructions, but the computer that controls it is the size of a room. Shakey can be regarded as the world's first intelligent mobile robot, kicking off the prelude to the development of the third generation of robots.
In 1969, the kato ichiro laboratory of Waseda University in Japan developed the first robot to walk on two feet. Ichiro Kato has long been committed to the study of humanoid robots and is known as the "father of humanoid robots". Japanese experts have always been known for developing technologies for humanoid robots and entertainment robots, and later went further, giving birth to Honda's ASIMO and Sony's QRIO.
In 1973, the world's first robot and small computer worked together, and the robot T3 of the American Cincinnati Milacron company was born.
In 1978, the United States Unimation Company launched the general industrial robot PUMA, which marked the full maturity of industrial robot technology. PUMA still works on the first line of the factory.
In 1984, Engelberg introduced the Helpmate, a robot that delivers meals, medicines, and mail to patients in hospitals. In the same year, he also predicted: "I will let the robot wipe the floor, cook, go out to help me wash the car, check the safety"
In 1998, the Danish LEGO company launched the Mind-storms kit, making robot manufacturing like building blocks, relatively simple and arbitrary, so that robots began to enter the personal world.
In 1999, Japan's Sony Company launched the dog-shaped robot Aibao (AIBO), which was immediately sold out, and since then, entertainment robots have become one of the ways for robots to enter ordinary families.
In 2002, the Danish company iRobot introduced the Vacuum Cleaner Robot Roomba, which can avoid obstacles, automatically design travel routes, and automatically drive to the charging cradle when the battery is low. Roomba is currently the world's largest and most commercially sold home robot.
In June 2006, Microsoft launched Microsoft Robotics Studio, the trend of robot modularization and platform unification is becoming more and more obvious, Bill Gates predicted that home robots will soon sweep the world.
In 2012, robotic astronaut, the discovery space shuttle's final space mission was to send the first humanoid robot to the International Space Station. The robotic astronaut, named "R2," has a range close to that of humans and can perform missions that are too dangerous for human astronauts. NASA said, "As we move beyond low Earth orbit, these robots are critical to NASA's future." ”
In 2014, people passed the Turing test for the first time, the father of computer science in the United Kingdom, Alan Turing, proposed the famous "Turing test" theory in 1950, and what can pass the test is artificial intelligence robots, and although countless robots failed in the test, on June 7, 2014, the 60th anniversary of Alan Turing's death, the chat program "Eugene Gustman" passed the Turing test for the first time at the "2014 Turing Test" conference held by the Royal Society.
On May 29, 2014, Microsoft Xiaoice officially launched the first generation of products, rapidly accumulating training data in the form of a conversational chatbot. In May 2019, Xiaoice graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts as a graduate student, and then held a solo exhibition at the CAFA Art Museum. In June 2020, Xiaoice graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Subsequently, Xiaoice composed the theme song of the 2020 World Artificial Intelligence Conference "Smart Connected Home" and was invited to create a new series of promotional singles for Burberry. In August of the same year, Zhu Jingxi, a singer-songwriter and electronic music producer in Xiaoice, co-created the theme song "HOPE" of the Shanghai Grand Theatre.
In 2014, at the 116th Canton Fair Convention and Exhibition Center in China, the robot "Wangbao" (BENEBOT) can warmly greet visitors, and this shopping guide robot from ECOVACS can conduct video or audio dialogue with humans, so that consumers can quickly understand the product information.
On March 9, 2016, Google AlphaGo took the lead in the "man-machine war" five-game chess confrontation with the human Go representative Korean team master Lee Sedol, and the amazing strength and rapid progress of artificial intelligence in Go stunned professional and amateur chess people around the world, completely subverting the previous people's belief that computer Go is impossible to compete with Go masters, and the breakthrough in artificial intelligence in human history has thus turned a new page.
On June 23, 2021, the robot "Hua Zhibing" entered Tsinghua University, as China's first original virtual student, "Hua zhibing" will be trained by Tang Jie, the dean of the Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University, and start his learning career in the Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University from now on, representing the rise of artificial intelligence robots in China.
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