I'd have to dig through the official stuff to see if there are confirming examples, but again, as one-off gadgeteer creations, all the way back to the 1930s. There's a robot in SuperTemps, I believe, active during at least the 1980s if not earlier. Formalized, "we've studied and engineered and we can reproduce what we're doing", AI pretty much starts with the MV-2400 project in 1988, which itself launched with poorly-understood recreations of alien AI circuitry, but doesn't mature for at least another twenty years. As of 2010, AI robots are a solved engineering problem, but there aren't a lot of them around because few companies want to deal with a) the PR fallout of "building people to be products" and b) that their product line would have a legal right to say "thanks but no thanks" and walk off rather than get quietly shipped to a showroom somewhere. AI robots still tend to be one-offs, created for highly individual reasons.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.