Mountain View in Santa Clara County, California — The American West (Pacific Coastal)

Shakey: The World's First Mobile Intelligent Robot

IEEE Milestone In Electrical Engineering And Computing

— 1972 —

Shakey: The World's First Mobile Intelligent Robot Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Michael Herrick, April 26, 2017

1. Shakey: The World's First Mobile Intelligent Robot Marker

Inscription. Stanford Research Institute's Artificial Intelligence Center developed the world's first mobile intelligent robot, Shakey. It could perceive its surroundings, infer implicit facts from explicit ones, create plans, recover from errors in plan execution, and communicate using ordinary English. Shakey's software architecture, computer vision, and methods for navigation and planning proved seminal in robotics and in the design of web servers, automobiles, factories, video games, and Mars rovers.

Erected 2017 by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Industry & Commerce • Science & Medicine. In addition, it is included in the IEEE Milestones in Electrical Engineering and Computing series list.

Location. 37° 24.887′ N, 122° 4.658′ W. Marker is in Mountain View, California, in Santa Clara County. It can be reached from the intersection of N Shoreline Blvd. and La Avenida Street, on the right when traveling north. Located at the Computer History Museum. Touch for map. Marker is at

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or near this postal address: 1401 N Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View CA 94043, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in California’s San Francisco Bay Area

and on the Coast Ranges.

It is also on the American Pacific Coast.

Globally, it is in North America,

on the Ring of Fire,

in the Pacific Rim,

in the Western Hemisphere,

in the Western World,

and in the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain

and also Mexico’s Alta California.

Other nearby markers. At least 9 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Birthplace of Silicon Valley (here, next to this marker); Online Systems and Personal Computing (here, next to this marker); SPICE (here, next to this marker); First RISC Microprocessor (here, next to this marker); The Floating Gate EEPROM (here, next to this marker); DIALOG Online Search System (here, next to this marker); Moore’s Law (here, next to this marker); Computer History Museum (here, next to this marker); SPARC RISC Architecture (here, next to this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Mountain View.

Also see . . . Computer History Museum.

Photographed by Michael Herrick, April 26, 2017

2. Shakey: The World's First Mobile Intelligent Robot Marker

At the right is the entrance to the Computer History Museum

(Submitted on April 29, 2017, by Michael Herrick of Southbury, Connecticut.)

Computer History Museum image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Michael Herrick, April 26, 2017

3. Computer History Museum

Credits. This page was last revised on October 1, 2021. It was originally submitted on April 29, 2017. This page has been viewed 615 times since then and 38 times this year. Last updated on August 8, 2020, by Craig Baker of Sylmar, California. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on April 29, 2017, by Michael Herrick of Southbury, Connecticut. • J. Makali Bruton was the editor who published this page.