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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

George C. Devol, a former Greenwich resident whose groundbreaking work in robotics paved the way for the computerized arms now used in factories around the world, has died. He was 99. George C. Devol ...

The dawn of the Robotic Age is about to break. The old year’s scientific achievements set the stage and the world is poised ...