Charles Rosen developed a robot named “Shakey,” which was the first general-purpose mobile robot. It efficiently perceives from its operating environment, derives implicit facts from available explicit points, makes plans, recovers successfully from errors during execution of the plan, and communicates in English. Shakey was programmed using LISP and FORTRAN, and it was augmented by a TV camera and “cat whisker” feelers to detect objects. Read more

December, 1966