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 ...

Robots evolved. From as far back as the early black and white movies (Metropolis) almost exactly 100 years ago, robots finally became real and started to help weld rivets in automotive engineering ...

Researchers have succeeded in developing the smallest fully autonomous robot in history. It measures less than 1 millimeter and can swim underwater for months powered only by light. Miniaturization ...