Scientific discovering of Robots

The first time which a mechanical device was built to carry out a physical task was back in 3000 B.C, when the Egyptians designed a water clock which uses a human figurines to strike the hour bells.

Also, in The year 400 B.C, Archytus who was known for the invention of the pulley and screw invented a wooden pigeon which was able to fly, Hydraulic operated statues that could gesture, speak and prophecy was also constructed in the second century B.C.

Other invention also came arlundike the doll made by Petroniis Arbiter which could move like a human being, a wooden robot was created by Giovanni Torriani that was useful in bringing bread to the Emperor daily from the store in 1557. There has been a lot of invented robots even before the 20th century.

Starting from 1700s there were alot of robot inventions till the 19th century where there was a steam powered robot created by the Canadians. These inventions were what brought about the inspiration of modern robots created from the 20th century till the 21st century as we know now.

The first modern robots created was created by George Devol in 1950 is am inventor from Louisville in Kentucky. He created a what is called a UNIMATE which is a reprogrammable manipulator.

After invention he decided to sell this product which wasn't successful, in late 1960s am engineer and businessman Joseph Engleberger bought Devol's patent and modified it into an industrial robot after which he formed a company called UNIMATION whivb was used to produce and sell the robots.

Now that we have gotten the history of Robots, what exactly then is a robot?
A robot is basically a machine that has been programmed by a computer which has the ability to carry out seriies of complex task which are usually automatic.