LESSON 1

• Robot


  A machine created to automatically perform one or more tasks fast and accurately
• Industrial Revolution


  • Shift to new processes of production
  • Things produced by hand have moved to the use of machinery in larger factories
• Robots before the Revolutions

  • Pigeon robot of Archytas (ancient Greek mathematician in 400 to 350 BCE)
• The kinds of robots that we know today actually came into existence during the Second Industrial Revolution
• First Industrial Revolution / "Steam Power"


  • Used steam powered engines
  • The steam engine performed mechanical work by utilizing steam as its working fluid
• First industrial steam powered engine

  • "Miner's Friend" constructed and patented in London
• Second Industrial Revolution / "Age of Science and Mass Production"

  • Development of pre-existing industries and growth of new ones such as oil, electrical companies
  • Introduction of public transports and aircrafts
• Robot from Second Industrial Revolution


  • Unimate, the first digitally operable and programmable robot used by carmakers to automate metalworking and welding processes
• Third Industrial Revolution / "Digital Age"


  • Introduction of the computer
  • Shift from analog to digital technology
• Digital technology


  • Use of digital or computerized devices, systems, methods, and resources that generate, store or process data
• Fourth Industrial Revolution / "Cyber Physical System"


  • Mixture of technological-driven advancements such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, genetic editing, and other technologies
• Robots in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

  • Educational robots (mBot)
  • Home robots (Landroid)
  • Security robots (Knightscope's K5)
  • Healthcare robots (Da Vinci Surgical)