Forty-seven years ago, two men who would launch the industrial-robotics revolution met over cocktails to discuss the ideas of the science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov. Joseph F. Engelberger and George ...

There is also a dance studio, complete with a wood floor and large mirrors. Here scientists record the movements of human ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The history of robots in manufacturing goes back to 1962, when a 4,000-pound, one-armed ...

Do you know the name [George Devol]? Probably not. In 1961 he received a patent for “Programmed Article Transfer.” We’d call his invention the first robot arm, and its name was the Unimate. Unlike ...

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 ...