A Brief History of Robotics - http://robotics.megagiant.com/history.html
A timeline of robotics beginning with a mechanical bird built in 350 BC and continuing to the current day. |
BBC News: Timeline: Real robots - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2001/artificial_intelligence/1531432.stm
A timeline providing an overview of the development of robots and computers. From 400 BC to 2001. |
Brief History of Artificial Intelligence - http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/bbhist.html
A timeline of AI and Robotics events from 500 BC to 2000 AD. |
History of Computers - http://www.maxmon.com/history.htm
Important events in the history of computers, electronics, math, and robotics. From 350 million BC to the present day. |
Robot Evolution - http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/robot.papers/2000/robot.evolution.html
Text and photos of talk by Han Moravec giving a concise history of autonomous mobile robots from Grey Walter to the present day. Includes Moravec's projection of future developments. |