Introduction

Ancient history concerning robots can be traced back almost 5000 years to when the Egyptians built water-powered clocks and the Chinese and Greeks built water- and steam-powered toys. However, Greece can be credited for generating the idea of the functional robot. This is stated in the writings of Aristotle in the fourth century B.C. in which he wrote [1]: “If every instrument could accomplish its own work, obeying or anticipating the will of others….” It took over 2000 years to put the idea developed in Greece into practice.