BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Shakey was a tall and it shook when it was switched on
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Shakey was small and square and vibrated when it was switched on
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Shakey was the first drone and used to shake when taking photographs of different routes
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It was the nickname of his inventor
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Detailed explanation-1: -His name was Shakey, because, well, he shook a lot as he rolled around. Shakey was a seminal creation in the world of artificial intelligence, a big step along the road to everything from natural language processing to computer games.
Detailed explanation-2: -The robot’s tall stature and tendency to shake resulted in its name: We worked for a month trying to find a good name for it, ranging from Greek names to whatnot, and then one of us said, ‘Hey, it shakes like hell and moves around, let’s just call it Shakey.
Detailed explanation-3: -“Shakey” was the first mobile robot with the ability to perceive and reason about its surroundings. The subject of SRI’s Artificial Intelligence Center research from 1966 to 1972, Shakey could perform tasks that required planning, route-finding, and the rearranging of simple objects.
Detailed explanation-4: -Charles Rosen, head of the Machine Learning Group at the Stanford Research Institute (now known as SRI International) developed a proposal in 1964 to build a robot that at the time would have featured the intelligence and capabilities that had only been depicted in science fiction books and movies.
Detailed explanation-5: -Shakey, developed at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) from 1966 to 1972, was the first mobile robot to reason about its actions.