jun 19, 1949 - First Machine Navigates on Its Own

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In the year 1949, an American-born British neurophysiologist and inventor named William Grey Walter introduced a pair of battery-powered, tortoise-shaped robots that could freely move around objects in a room and guide themselves toward a source of light. It can also find its way to go back by using a component that remains important to robots today: sensor, a responsive feedback loop and logical reasoning

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