Historic note: Inventions of the Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla have changed the world. Among his many inventions is the remotely controlled boat, first demonstrated in 1898 at New York's Madison Square Garden. Many see this invention as the begining of robotics, and some would extend that to AI. Tesla was also the pioneer of ethical robotics. Quoting from the same PBS website: When a New York Times writer suggested that Tesla could make the boat submerge and carry dynamite as a weapon of war, the inventor himself exploded. Tesla quickly corrected the reporter: "You do not see there a wireless torpedo, you see there the first of a race of robots, mechanical men which will do the laborious work of the human race."