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Which robot was the first to land on an asteroid?

Answer

NEAR Shoemaker

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In the film WALL-E, what is the name of the probe robot that WALL-E meets on Earth?

Answer

EVE

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What was the name of the first insect-scale flying robot developed by Harvard researchers in 2013?

Answer

RoboBee

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What was the name of Westinghouse’s humanoid robot demonstrated at the 1939 New York World’s Fair?

Answer

Elektro

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Which robot was the first to perform a controlled flight on another planet?

Answer

Ingenuity

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What was the name of the Soviet robot rover that became the first remote-controlled vehicle on the Moon in 1970?

Answer

Lunokhod 1

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Which robot was the first to appear on a U.S. postage stamp, issued in 1997?

Answer

Sojourner

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What was the name of the first robot vacuum cleaner sold by iRobot?

Answer

Roomba

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What was the name of the robotic arm flown on NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia in 1981?

Answer

Canadarm

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What is the name of Boston Dynamics’ commercial quadruped robot launched in 2019?

Answer

Spot

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What was the name of Boston Dynamics’ four-legged robot developed for the U.S. military in 2005?

Answer

BigDog

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What was the name of KUKA’s first six-axis industrial robot, introduced in 1973?

Answer

FAMULUS

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