History of Robot


The word robot was used first in the work named R.U.R.(Rossum's Universal Robots) of playwright Karel Capek in old Czechoslovakia in 1921. The robot is originally a meaning "Working person" in the Czech Republic word.The robot comes to be used gradually as arms, and enumerated, and robots raise a revolt, ruin the human race, and do to outskirts of the phrase though. This story became the radical of the following science fiction novel and the movie.The robot which was made for the first time in Japan at 1928.
Name is "Gakutensoku".



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"Gakutensoku"

1951:Osamu Tezuka starts "Astro Boy" serialization

1956:Mituki Yokoyama starts "Tetujin 28gou" serialization

1970:A musical instrument performance robot appears for Osaka World Exposition

1973:Waseda University World's first bipedal robot WABOT-1 development

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