The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence
The tech we use nowadays is the outcome of a number of artificial intelligence milestones achieved by many unsung heroes. We travelled back in time and compiled a list of all significant artificial intelligence achievements that have allowed us to enjoy our current lifestyle. Let’s take a look at AI evolution over time. The timeline below highlights AI milestones that have been achieved throughout history. These achievements can be found in all areas of Artificial Intelligence. Because this is a growing timeline, new milestones will be updated on a regular basis.
Timeline
IBM Simulates The Human Brain Up To 4.5 Percent
IBM simulates the human brain using Blue Gene supercomputer. The human brain is a huge network of neurons and synapses at their edges. The human brain has 20 billion neurons with more than 200 trillion synapses. To simulate the whole human brain, huge computational power is required. In other animal..Read more
Apple Launched SIRI On iPhone 4s
Apple launched SIRI as its first voice assistant program released with iPhone 4S. Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface (SIRI) uses voice commands to perform certain tasks from the user. These voice commands include calling someone, setting the alarm, sending an email, opening text messages, question-answers, asking for recommendations, using multiple..Read more
D-wave Sys Announces D-wave One, World’s First Commercially Available Quantum Computer
D-wave One was a 128 Qubit chipset system that uses Quantum Annealing. Quantum Annealing is a metaheuristic approach to find a global minimum. The processor used in it was named Rainier, and it performs a single mathematical function, Discrete Optimization. The computer was quoted worth $ 10 million. Read more..Read more
Google Brain Project Founded By Andrew Ng
Google Brain project is Google’s deep learning artificial intelligence group. It was established to combine open-end machine learning concepts with information systems and huge computing resources. AI encryption systems, Google translate, and image enhancement was the main focus of the Brain. Read more February, 2011
The Nano Remote-control Hummingbird by AeroVironment
It was first developed by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) in the United States. This Remote-control Hummingbird came with motors, a battery, a video camera, and a communication system weighing less than a AA battery. This technology paves a new pathway for the new class of surveillance vehicles. Read..Read more
DeepMind Technologies Came Into Existence
It is a British AI company acquired by Google in 2014, under Alphabet Inc’s subsidiary. The most amazing products of DeepMind Technologies are Neural Turing Machine, AlphaFold, Wavenet and WaveRNN, and AlphaGO. In 2014, DeepMind received “Company of the Year” award from Cambridge Computer LaboratoryRead more September, 2010
Robotic Exoskeleton OR Bionic Legs developed by Rex
Rex company in New Zealand prepared a pair of bionic legs for paraplegics and people in wheelchairs. This robotic exoskeleton is highly stable and uses Velcro and buckles for providing extraordinary support. Read more July, 2010
iCub Humanoid Robot
iCub Humanoid Robot of 1m in height was used to research human cognition at IIT, Itlay. It was able to express emotions as it had tactile sensors for interaction with the environment. Read more January, 2010
First 3D Printer Was Introduced Commercially
The First 3D printer hit the market first time in 2010, and Dr. Gabor Forgacs used a bioprinter to print the first blood vessel. The engineers at the University of Southampton built the first 3D aircraft in seven days and flew it successfully. Read more January, 2010
Microsoft Developed Kinect: A Device For Tracking Body’s Posture
The Kinect device used was able to track the body’s posture by using structured-light computational stereo technology. It was one of the fastest-selling consumer electronics devices and claimed the Guinness World Record. Microsoft sold 8 million units of it within sixty days of its release. Read more August, 2009
The Scientist Robot Adam
The creators of Scientist Robot Adam were the engineers at Aberystwyth University and the University of Cambridge. This automated scientist demonstrated active machine learning for formulating hypotheses, designing experiments, and ran tests to investigate orphan enzymes in the yeast saccharomyces cerevisiae. Read more April, 2009
Original E-Skin By The Engineers At The University Of Tokyo
They used carbon nanotubes to develop a thin E-Skin that gave the robot a better sense of touch and better electricity flow. The material was used on the steering wheels of cars to access the driver’s physiology. Read more December, 2008
OpenCog Artificial Intelligence Platform Was Launched
OpenCog artificial intelligence platform is open-source and comes with the main component OpenCog Prime designed by Ben Goertzel. It was based on robotic architecture and virtual embodied cognition for generating true Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). It was written in C++, Python, and Scheme on a Linux platform. Read more January,..Read more
I-LIMB: World’s First Commercially Available Prosthetic Hand
Touch Bionics created the hand with multi-articulating activity. It was capable of movement and could grip on larger objects. In one year, 200 patients got I-LIMB hands. Read more October, 2007
The Netflix Prize Competition Launched By Netflix
The company aimed to conduct a Netflix Prize competition using machine learning, which could beat their recommendation software in the accuracy of predicting a viewer’s rating. Read more October, 2006
LOPES (Exoskeleton)
The mission of the LOPES (exoskeleton) project was to develop a rehabilitation robot for treadmill training. Its target was those patients who have lost their motor control in a stroke. The robot can reduce the physical load on the patient. Read more September, 2006
Spykee Robotic Toy Manufactured By Erector/Meccano
The team prepared this Spykee Robotic Toy with a USB webcam, microphone, and speakers. The owner can control it via his computer as it can move in different directions. Plus, it can take pictures, make videos, listen to its surrounding, and many more. Read more June, 2006
The Robot Surgeon will See You Now
The robot was developed with over 10,000 actual operations information. The robot surgeon spent 50 minutes on a 34 years old man’s heart during a surgical procedure. Read more May, 2006
The Mondo Spider Robot Designed By Leigh Christie
The Mondo Spider Robot has eight walking steel legs working like a machine and move by using Klann Linkage. The given vehicle can carry one person with a maximum speed of about 4 feet per second. Read more May, 2006
The first Artificial intelligent Silicon Retina
This first Artificial Intelligent silicon retina was constructed in silico to activate the response of the four primary ganglion cell types that drive the visual cortex and produced 3600 spiking outputs. It paved new ways for a neural prosthesis in matching dimensions with the biological retina. Read more May, 2006
The Roboreptile Manufactured By Sphero Ltd
This robotic toy Roboreptile has infrared and sound sensors to explore its surrounding. It can also avoid obstacles coming it’s way. Its user can operate it in different modes where it can behave like other real animals. Read more April, 2006
Genibo QD: A Robotic Dog By The Korean Company Dasarobot
Genibo QD was a pet robot having a dog-like appearance and behavior. It has cameras, sensors, and voice commands to share emotions with its user. Further, it can identify its surrounding by using its installed tools. Read more April, 2006
The Blue Brain Project
This Blue Brain Project was a Swiss neuroscience mission to stimulate the mammalian brain realistically at molecular details. Read more November, 2005
First Autonomous Vehicle Developed By Stanford University
DARPA challenged to develop the first autonomous vehicle that couldn’t require any human assistance to A team from Stanford University developed an autonomous vehicle, which could travel 175-mile in the desert without any human supervision. Read more October, 2005
Nengo (Neural Engineering Object) Software Prepared By The University of Waterloo, Canada
Nengo is an Open-source software that provided specific tools to allow large groups of neurons to function collectively. Plus, they also offered low-level electrophysiological details. It’s straightforward for simulating large-scale neural systems. Read more August, 2005
First BigDot Robot By Boston Dynamics
First BigDot Robot can carry 150 Kg of weight by Boston Dynamics used as war machines. Boston Dynamics created this robot that uses its four legs to traverse rough terrains. Read more June, 2005
Numenta Founded By Jeff Hawkings
Jeff Hawkings (creator of Palm PDA) established a company Numnta, whose mission was to understand the working of the neocortex so that this natural work machine can be mimic to machines that can perform in the same way. NuPIC is their open-source project that is supported by python2.7. Major applications..Read more
The First Reproductive Robot by Cornell University Researchers
The robot was not reproductive in a medical sense, but it was efficient enough in producing its replica. The researchers built this first reproductive robot with computerized cubes and magnets to link and swivel them together. It proved that replication is not the process that occurs only in living organisms...Read more
Zoe: A Solar-Powered Autonomous Robot
The Zoe robot came with sensors to detect microorganisms and find the distribution of life in the Atacama Desert. The tasks trained to the Zoe robot are helpful in the exploration of life on Mars. It is, in fact, a 4 wheel rover with a drill to collect samples beneath..Read more