The History of Artificial Intelligence

The first thought of a thinking machine came from a man named Charles Babbage dueing the 1830's. Babbage wanted to create a machine that could automatically calculate a mathematical chart in less time and with more accuracy.

Since then, early A.I. researchers believed that the human brain worked like a computer, taking in information and converting it to symbols, which were processed by the brain and converted back to a recognizable form as a thought. The researchers also believed that intelligence could be abstracted from implementation.

In the past few decades, there have been simulated neural networks that have been built like the neural network in a human brain. Another name for simulated neural networks is Artificial Neural Networks.

In 2000, Honda revealed ASIMO to the world. ASIMO stood for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility and it is the most lifelike robot to date. ASIMO is able to walk and play soccer. It has three cameras (two on it's head and one on it's waist to help it play soccer). There are sensors in each ankle to predict the next step it should take and there are gravity sensors to track the force of each movement ASIMO takes. The solid scope gyrometers help monitor the body position and help keep ASIMO upright. Ever since its release in 2000, Honda has kept improving various parts of ASIMO. It has become lighter and taller, it can run faster, it can operate longer, and it has more degrees of freedom.