Leonardo Da Vinci

Unlike most of Leo’s inventions, Leo apparently actually built the robotic knight. “If da Vinci's self-propelled cart was the first working design for a robotic vehicle, then the robotic knight would have been the first humanoid robot, a real 15th century C-3PO,” states Christopher Lampton. The knight did not survive long enough for people to know exactly what it did, but based on Leo’s writings, scientists have an idea on how it worked. Apparently the wooden robot was able to sit, move, and even use its jaw. His scriptures noted that it was driven by pulleys and gears.

My artist is Leonardo da Vinci. He was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy. The famous artist died on May 2, 1519 in Amboise, France. While he was alive he was a part of the Renaissance style of art. I decided to pick da Vinci because I don’t know that much about art history but the name Leonardo da Vinci stands out to everyone so I figured it would be interesting to learn about one of the most influential artists in history.

His creator , Rogney Brooks, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, thought of creating cog, from inspiration from an artificial intelligence that was depicted in the movie, "2001:A Space Odyssey." In the movie, Hal, the AI, controlled a large space craft. Instead of creating a brain in a box like in the movie, Rodney is putting the mind of a human into the body of a robot. Cog isn’t yet a true humanoid robot. Right now he is little more that a head, neck , shoulders, chest and waist.

A big factor that really held him back was actually following through and manufacturing the design. He didn’t have the access to technology we have nowadays to create his inventions. However, this is the importance of his drawings and designs. Engineers and innovators love looking for ways to really go through with Leonardo Da Vinci’s designs since in our modern era, we now have access to the technology that he did not have access

Even for someone to copy his drawings by hand might not have been considered accurate, or legitimate, because of his complex mathematical equations and extreme attention to detail. Also, it is commonly known Da Vinci was left-handed and wrote backwards in his journals, probably because it was easier for him. However, had the inventions in his notebooks been discovered sooner, then life today would be more advanced. Despite the latency of scholars, it is undeniable that Da Vinci made inventions and scientific discoveries before anyone else. Amazingly, Leonardo conceptualized parabolic trajectory before Galileo, who lays claim to this scientific discovery.

Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452, about 25 miles west of Florence, Italy. He was most famously know for art and science. Da Vinci studied the laws of science and incorporated what he knew into his work. Leonardo Da Vinci was born in the era of Renaissance which contributed to his views on life and artistic background. He was a successful scientist in the fields of Anatomy, Physics, and Aerodynamics.

Although he is known more prominently as the greatest artist who ever lived da Vinci was a polymath, a man of many skills most of which are shadowed by the popularity of his works of art. Among the things he is not known as well for da Vinci was an excellent scientist. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born out of wedlock on April 15, 1452, in Vinci, Italy to his father Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a 25 year old notary, and his mother a peasant girl named Caterina. Da Vinci’s father took custody of him soon after he was born, his mother moved to a different town with her new spouse. Eventually, between his mother and father da Vinci had a total of 17 half brothers and sisters (“Renaissance Man,” n.d.).

One of the first robots was thought up by Leonardo Da Vinci. It was only a sketch of a mechanical knight, who was able to sit up, wave his arms, and move his head and jaws. It was unknown if he attempted to build it. Other automatons have also been created through history, but in 1926, Westinghouse Electric Corporation created the first robot to be used for work, Televox. The first autonomous robot was created in 1948 to 1949 by William Grey Walter, which could sense light and touch, and they moved around without human guidance.

Mathematical Order in the Artwork of Leonardo Da Vinci A large portion of the Italian Renaissance was an obsession with finding order in everything in the universe. Its primary actors sought to show nature as orderly and fundamentally simple. Leonardo Da Vinci, the epitome of the Renaissance Man, was not the first to apply these ideas of geometric order and patterns to art, but he may be the most well known. Da Vinci used mathematical concepts like linear perspective, proportion and geometry in much of his artwork. Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, a town 50 kilometers west of Florence in what is now Italy.

About 1200 years later, Roman numerals were finally introduced, along with the idea of the zero and other mathematical basics. This helped lay the foundation for several different men who had findings that would eventually lead us to the beginnings of computers and computing. Though they are often referred to as scholars, many of these intellectuals were most likely just merely the nerds of their time. Take Wilhelm Schickard and Blaise Pascal of the 17th century, for example. Both of these men had enough time on their hands to individually build two of the first mechanical calculators in history.