Who are the Fathers of Robotics?

With robots getting more and more present in our daily lives, it's interesting to look back and get to know the great minds who first conceived a future where machines would help humans.
Let's take a look today at 3 great minds who are among the Fathers of Robotics :
- Isaac Asimov and his books
- Joseph Engelberger and Unimate and HelpMate
- Ismail Al-Jazari and The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices
Let us know what you think in the comments below

[@bamantioindrahidayat1165]

Al Jazari is truly the Robotic father before any software programs
Other just don't have the knowledge like Al Jazari to make robot like that

[@hexstar8576]

Thanks for the info, but you forgot someone important. In 1898, Nikola Tesla demonstrated a radio-controlled boat at the Electrical Exhibition in the recently completed Madison Square Garden. (U.S. Patent 613,809 -Method of an Apparatus for Controlling Mechanism of Moving Vehicle or Vehicles). What Tesla invented in 1898 with his radio-controlled boat was the birth of Electronic Robotics!

[@billw.9519]

no, a robot functions autonomously. radio controlled toys are not robots

[@hexstar8576]

@@billw.9519 "Although newspaper headlines chose to focus on the use of Tesla's boat as a wirelessly controlled torpedo, his plans for the invention were not wholly aimed at warfare. In a 1900 article from Century magazine, Tesla described a moment of self-realization, seeing his own mind and body as an automaton, reacting to external stimuli and situations. He stated that contemporary automatons were simply using a "borrowed mind," and responded to orders from a distant and intelligent operator. Tesla believed that one day we may be able to endow a machine with its "own mind," where it, too, can act on environmental stimuli of its own accord. According to Margaret Cheney's Tesla: A Man Out of Time, when asked about the boat's potential as an explosive-delivery system, Tesla retorted, "You do not see there a wireless torpedo; you see there the first of a race of robots, mechanical men which will do the laborious work of the human race."
Tesla's toy boat: A drone before its time
Jon Turi
January 19, 2014

[@billw.9519]

​@@hexstar8576 The author's embellishment is obvious BS, as the word robot was not even coined until 1920. "'Robot' was first applied as a term for artificial automata in the 1920 play R.U.R. by the Czech writer, Karel Čapek." The Cult of Tesla likes to attribute far more credit that he deserves because of their sympathy for his treatment by Edison and others, however calling him a roboticist is unfair to the true fathers of robotics.

[@hexstar8576]

@@billw.9519
In Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest scientists and inventors. Called a madman by his enemies, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla was, without a doubt, a trailblazing inventor who created astonishing, sometimes world-transforming devices that were virtually without theoretical precedent. Tesla not only discovered the rotating magnetic field -- the basis of most alternating-current machinery -- but also introduced us to the fundamentals of robotics, computers, and missile science. Almost supernaturally gifted, unfailingly flamboyant and neurotic, Tesla was troubled by an array of compulsions and phobias and was fond of extravagant, visionary experimentations. He was also a popular man-about-town, admired by men as diverse as Mark Twain and George Westinghouse, and adored by scores of society beauties.
From Tesla's childhood in Yugoslavia to his death in New York in the 1940s, Cheney paints a compelling human portrait and chronicles a lifetime of discoveries that radically altered -- and continue to alter -- the world in which we live. Tesla: Man Out of Time is an in-depth look at the seminal accomplishments of a scientific wizard and a thoughtful examination of the obsessions and eccentricities of the man behind the science.

[@hexstar8576]

@@billw.9519
Margaret Cheney is a biographer of unusual versatility. In addition to her two major studies of Tesla (most recently Tesla: Master of Lightning, with Robert Uth), she has written Midnight at Mabel's, a biography of the great cabaret singer and song stylist Mabel Mercer.

[@billw.9519]

George Devol should be credited - he holds the seminal robot robotics patent and is in the National Inventor's Hall of Fame as a result

[@dwrobotics2180]

Very interesting video. Needs a dramatic thumbnail to get more views. (i.e Terminator, Asimo, Robot Arm, etc)

[@RobotShopTV]

Thanks for the feedback !

[@Lukas_6_ayat_12]

Then what about Al Jazari?

[@gauravk.s.326]

First one signify less vacant space,second one asserts if followed the third one could get angel ! Let's change the crucial vital!

[@sarrisantalff3206]

Nice vedio for me

[@rigzennamgail1964]

I will also make a robot one day

[@SVM_MUTHU.]

One doubt who is Joseph f.engelberger...

[@amal3161]

Ben skora?