Shakey the Robot Explained:

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Created in the late 1960s, Shakey was the first mobile robot with the ability to perceive and reason about its surroundings.

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Who invented Shakey the Robot?

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Facts about Shakey the Robot

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Shakey the Robot: How it Worked

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Shakey the Robot: Historical Significance

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Shakey the Robot Explained:

Everything You Need to Know

Created in the late 1960s, Shakey was the first mobile robot with the ability to perceive and reason about its surroundings.

Who invented Shakey the Robot?

Shakey the robot was invented by a group of engineers in Stanford Research Institute (SRI) headed by Charles Rosen, Nils Nilsson, and Bert Raphael.

Facts about Shakey the Robot

– Shakey obtained its name from the way it could shake when it came to an abrupt stop. – Shakey used the Lisp programming language2, as well as FORTRAN, and responded to simple English-language commands.

Shakey the Robot: How it Worked

Shakey was a little less than two meters tall and had three sections. At the bottom was a wheeled platform that gave the robot its mobility and collision detection sensors.

Shakey the Robot: Historical Significance

When presenting Shakey in an extensive article in Life Magazine of 20 Nov 1970, a young scientist introduced it as “The first electronic person.”

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