1495 → today
Humanoid Robots
人形机器人
Why we keep building machines in our own image, and what bipedal robots reveal about ourselves.
From the curator
Of all the shapes a robot could take, we keep returning to our own. This gallery asks why — and shows how hard it really is to stand, balance, and walk on two legs.
Timeline
- 1495Leonardo da Vinci designs a mechanical knight
- 1921Čapek's R.U.R. gives the world the word 'robot'
- 1973WABOT-1, the first full-scale humanoid, walks at Waseda University
- 2000ASIMO demonstrates stable two-legged walking
- 2013Atlas debuts as a research platform for the DARPA Robotics Challenge
Official films
Curated via the YouTube Data API and embedded through the official player — no downloads, creators credited.
Artifacts and media for this gallery are sourced from the m591 asset vault — open-license images (with attribution) and officially-embedded video only.