Cave Painting
~30.000 BC
Paleolithic Venus Figurines
~30.000 BC
Articulated Tribal Masks
~5.000 BC
Egyptian Articulated Statues and Masks
~2.000 BC
Golem
Talmudic tradition, 1st. appearance Psalms 139:16
~10th Century BC
Golden Servants of Hephaestus
Homer's epic poem, Odyssey
~8th Century BC
Articulated Statuettes and Puppets
~500 BC
Talos
Giant bronze automaton made by Hephaestus to protect Crete
~400 BC
Dedalus « Living » Statues
Cited in Plato's Menon
~390 BC
Flying Mechanical Bird
Archytas of Tarentum
~380 BC
Pneumatic and Mechanical Automata
Philo of Byzantium
~250 BC
Galatea and Pygmalion
Ovid's narrative poem, Metamorphoses, Book X
~0
Pneumatic and Mechanical Automata
Hero of Alexandria
~10-70 AD
Automaton Clock
Gift from Caliph Haroun Al-Rachid to Charlemagne
809
Copper Knights
Lancelot do Lac, Arthurian legends
~13th Century
Pourer Automata
Various automata, Al-Jazari
1315
Jacquemarts
Bellstrikers, e.g. Notre Dame de Dijon
1383
Mechanical Knight
Humanoid automata, Leonardo da Vinci
~1495
Gargantua's automata
Gargantua, François Rabelais
1534
Mechanical Gardens and Landscapes
Tommaso Francini
1598
Talking Head
Don Quichotte, Miguel de Cervantès
1605
Francine
Mechanical Daugther (probably a tale), René Descartes
1640
Flute and Tambourine Players, Digesting Duck
Automata, Jacques de Vaucanson
1738
Mechanical Turc Chess Player
Fake humanoid automaton made by Wolfgang von Kempelen
1770
Musician, Draugthman and Writer
Humanoid automata, Pierre Jaquet-Droz, Henri-Louis Jaquet-Droz and Jean-Frédéric Leschot
1774
Olympia
The Sandman, Ernst T. A. Hoffmann
1816
Frankenstein
Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley
1817
The Venus of Ille
The Venus of Ille, Prosper Mérimée
1837
Automata in Magic Shows
Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin
1854
Pinocchio
The Adventures of Pinocchio, Carlo Lorenzini (C. Collodi)
1881
Hadaly
The Future Eve, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
1886
R.U.R. Robots
1st use of the term, R.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robots, Karel Čapek
1921
Futura
1st robot in a movie, Metropolis, Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou
1927
Elektro and Sparko
1st humanoid robot, Westinghouse Electric Corporation
1937
Elmer and Elsie
Machina Speculatrix, William Grey Walter
1948
The 3 laws of Robotics
I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
1950
Gort
The Day the Earth Stood Still, Robert Wise
1951
Astro Boy
Manga, Osamu Tezuka
1952
Robby
Forbidden Planet, Fred McLeod Wilcox
1956
Beast
Mobile robot, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
1960
Unimate 001
1st industrial robot, George Devol and Joe Engelberg, Universal Automation
1962
Shakey
Mobile robot, Charles Rosey, SRI Stanford
1966
Hilare
Mobile robot, LAAS Genoble
1977
CART
Hans Moravec, Stanford University, this project began in 1960s
1979
Gunslinger
Westworld, Michael Crichton
1973
Goldorak
Manga, Go Nagai
1975
R2D2 and C3PO
Star Wars, George Lucas
1977
Cylons
Battlestar Galactica, Glen A. Larson
1978
Officier Ash
Alien, Ridley Scott
1979
Replican Nexus-6
Blade Runner, Ridley Scott, from a novel by Philip K. Dick
1982
Transformers
Manga and toys, Hasbro/Takara
1984
T-800
Terminator, James Cameron
1984
Johnny Five
Short Circuit, John Badham
1986
Robocop
Robocop, Paul Verhoeven
1987
Genhis
Insectoid robot, Rodney Brooks, MIT
1989
T-1000
Terminator - The Jugment Day, James Cameron
1991
Aibo
Dog robot, Toshi Doi, Sony
1997
Kismeth
Emotional head, Cinthia Breazal, MIT
1998
Khepera
Small modular mini robot, F. Mondada, et. Al. EPFL, K-Team
1999
Robots making love
Clip for Björk's song « All Is Full of Love », Chris Cunningham
1999
Asimo
Humanoid walking robot, Honda Motors
2000
Golem
1st robot created by a Genetic Algorithm, H. Lipson and J. Pollack
2000
David and Gigolo Joe
A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Steven Spielberg
2001
Roomba
Vacuum cleaner robot, iRobot
2002
Sonny
I, Robot, Alex Proyas
2004
Number 6
Battlestar Galactica, Ronald D. Moore
2004
Actroïd and Geminoïd
Hiroshi Ishiguro, Osaka University
2005
Nao
Humanoid robot, Aldebaran Robotics
2006
Transformers
Transformers, Michael Bay
2007
Wall-E
Wall-E, Andrew Stanton
2008
iCube
European open-source child robot,
2006
BigDog
Quadruped robot, Boston Dynamics
2008
Nexi
Cinthia Breazal, MIT
2009
HRP-4
Humanoid robot, AIST and Kawada
2010
Hubots
Real Humans, Lars Lundström
2012
Curiosity
Mars Science Lab. robot, NASA
2012
Atlas
Humanoid robot, Boston Dynamics
2013
Swarm Robots
Radhika Nagpal, Harvard
2014
Pepper
Emotional robot, Aldebaran Robotics and Softbank
2014
Ava
Ex Machina, Alex Garland
2015
Chappie
Chappie, Neill Blomkamp
2015
BB-8
Star Wars VII, Jeffrey J. Abrams
2015
Dolores
Westworld, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy
2016