Non-silicon robot

<h2 id="history">History</h2>
<p>Any robotic system that was built before the advent of modern electronics could be considered a non-silicon robot. <a href="/facts/Automation/3YlF2K5q">Automation</a> has been a significant component of  industry for over 150 years and pre-transistor control systems of the 1930s and 1940s were fairly sophisticated.  These control methods are largely forgotten.  Such systems use pneumatic, mechanical and electric control systems.
</p><p>With some notable early exceptions (<a href="/facts/William_Grey_Walter/zs30W9IM">W. Grey Walter</a>), in the modern era,  non-silicon robots have been mainly confined to obscure research and purely <a href="/facts/Teleoperated/bpYyorPE">teleoperated</a> robots and have received relatively little attention.  However, this is changing with the development of non-traditional computing technologies such as molecular computing (<a href="/facts/Unconventional_computing/XkJjTK0a">unconventional computing</a> and non-silicon computing).
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<h2 id="journals-and-conferences">Journals and conferences</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.oldcitypublishing.com/IJUC/IJUC.html">International Journal of Unconventional Computing</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ecal2005.org/workshopsCD/unconventcomp/index.html">Unconventional Computing</a></li>
<li><a href="http://uncomp.uwe.ac.uk/uc2006/">From Utopian to Genuine Unconventional Computers</a></li></ul>

Non-silicon robot open-in-new

Non-silicon robot