ROBO

STARTS FROM A Short Story

STARTS FROM A Short Story

Since when men get to know a robot? The legend says, the term robot was first popularized in 1942 Actually, the term robot was used by Karel Capek, a playwright from Czechoslovakia. The short story tells of robotic therapy. Inspired by the short story Runaround, Joseph Weizenbaum, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute, a program of Eliza in 1966 There are about 240 lines of code created by Weizenbaum to simulate a psikotherapy.


It's not just Prof. Weizenbaum are obsessed with the works of Asimov's short story Runaround it. Ten years before Prof. Weizenbaum makes the program Elilza, George Devol and Joseph Engelberger already been discussed about the making of a robot based on the idea of ​​the story of the short story Runaround. They both then set up a company called Unimation, an abbreviation of the term Universal Automation. Unimation became the first company in the world that produces commercial robots. In fact, the company reportedly is still in production.