The history of robots in manufacturing goes back to 1962, when a 4,000-pound, one-armed robot named Unimate was installed at a GM plant in Trenton, New Jersey to lift and stack hot pieces of metal. It ...

Joe Engelberger formed the first robotics company in 1957, sold the first industrial robotic arm to General Motors in 1962 and even demoed his Unimate robot on The Tonight Show in 1966 in order to ...

What image springs into your mind when you hear the word robot ? A small metallic man with flashing eyes and a squeaky walk, or perhaps a disembodied mechanical limb repeatedly performing some mundane ...