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Cybernetics & Feedback Control
Norbert Wiener's 'Cybernetics' (1948) treats feedback, information and control in machines and animals alike.
Open in the interactive tree →Wiener drew on servo mechanisms and wartime anti-aircraft control and on the neuron models of McCulloch and Pitts. Control theory and the idea of self-regulating machines run through robotics, automation and early AI.
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- CNC & Numerical Control1952CNC machines are servo-controlled; MIT's servomechanisms lab built the first one
- Kalman Filter1960
- Industrial Robot (Unimate)1961Robot arms depend on feedback control of their joints