Fifty years of Shakey, the "world's first electronic person"

Robots are increasingly becoming part of our everyday lives and many roboticists believe that we are on the verge of a robot revolution that will do for goods and services what the Internet did for information. If so, then a lot of the credit goes to a 50 year old box on wheels called Shakey: the "world's first electronic person.".. Continue Reading Fifty years of Shakey, the "world's first electronic person"

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