History Of AI In 33 Breakthroughs: The First AI-Driven Robot

The just-issued World Robotics Report announced an all-time high of 517,385 new industrial robots installed in 2021 in factories around the world, representing 31% year-on-year growth. That brought the current stock of operational robots around the globe to about 3.5 million, a new record. Toyota has created a 6-foot-10-inch basketball-shooting robot named Cue that uses sensors on its ... [ ] torso to judge the distance and angle of the basket and uses motorized arms and knees to execute set shots. This robot record was reached half a century after the development of SHAKEY, the world's first "mobile intelligent robot." According to the 2017 IEEE Milestone citation, it "could perceive its surroundings, infer implicit facts from explicit ones, create plans, recover from errors in plan execution, and communicate using ordinary English. SHAKEY's software architecture, computer vision, and methods for navigation and planning proved seminal in robotics and in the design of web servers, automobiles, factories, video games, and Mars rovers."