The first digital and programmable robot was called Unimate and was sold for a $35,000 loss to General Motors the same year its patent was approved. The Unimate was filed for patenting by George Devol ...

From research labs to factories, farms, and even our own homes, robots are everywhere these days. But which are the most important robots ever built? We decided to welcome our new robot overlords with ...

Years before personal computers, at the end of the 1950s, robots were already working in factories–or at least one was. The Unimate 1900 series was the first mass-produced robotic arm for use in ...