Last week we discussed how artifical intelligence came about. I was curious as to when robots were first invented and what their capabilities were at the time. What I found was pretty interesting to me. In 1966, the first mobile robot was created that could reason about its actions, it's name was Shakey.
Shakey had many features such as acting, seeing and reasoning. If someone input a command into Shakeys computer, it would type back a response. Shakey could take instructions and work things out until he reached the objective or goal. In 1972, researchers named Peter Hart and Nils Nilsson created a film titled after the robot, Shakey. The film demonstrated all of Shakey's capabilities and how they've learned to program a robot at this stage in technology.
To believe that we were making robots back in the 60s, seems pretty hard to believe. I mean, yes, times were changing and technology was becoming more advanced but thats over 40 years ago. We've watched in class what they have been able to make now days and what can be produced is alot more advanced than Shakey but to know that this was starting to happen that long ago, in itself it pretty unreal.
I am fascinated by the idea of AI. This is so cool to me. I believe that AI will one day just be another part of life, kind of like the Jetson's Rosie. I believe the capabilities are endless and I am anticipating this new trend with excitement.
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