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Pillar 2 • Historical Chronicle (1943–2026)

The Parallel 80-Year History of AI & Physical Robotics

An interactive dual-track chronicle tracing the computational revolution: how symbolic logic, connectionist neural networks, and physical electromechanical actuators evolved from separate research disciplines into unified embodied intelligence.

Companion Applied Historical Deep-Dives
History 101: From Shakey to Humanoids
The 60-year quest for embodied intelligence: STRIPS planning, ASIMO, Atlas, and Optimus.
History 102: The 70-Year Battle: GOFAI vs. Connectionism
Minsky's Perceptrons, the XOR crisis, Rumelhart's backprop, and Sutton's Bitter Lesson.
History 103: The Mechanics of AlexNet (2012)
How dual GTX 580 GPUs, ImageNet, ReLU, and Dropout ignited the modern deep learning era.
History 104: The Open-Weights Revolution
From the LLaMA-1 leak to DeepSeek-R1: how open weights achieved frontier model parity.