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This paper deals with a red wire which connects the robotic developments in an Italian University, Politecnico di Milano, where the Dept. of Mechanics has conducted applied researches since 1977, at the dawn of Robotics, in the science of robots. Recently, on May 4, 2013, the European Project Locobot won the EU Open Doors selection in Brussels, chosen as one of the most significant projects in the European Union. The fourteen robots that were developed are now housed in the National Museum of Science and Technology “Leonardo da Vinci” in Milan, and their sequence represents an evolutionary story inside science and technology. The main principle is that the past results are a growing and fertile terrain for the future, as well as being a sign of unforeseen developments.
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Rovetta, A., Iannone, V. (2016). Robots: An Evolving Species. In: Sorge, F., Genchi, G. (eds) Essays on the History of Mechanical Engineering. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 31. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22680-4_22
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