The survey questioned 1,000 workers in each of five countries: U.S., China, Japan, U.K. and Germany. Across the board, ...

In Kevin Drum’s latest feature, he imagines a bleak future where robots begin taking all of our jobs. Though he predicts this will happen about three decades from now, the concept obviously isn’t new.

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 ...

George Devol (above right) died last week at his home in Connecticut. He invented the Unimate, the first programmable Industrial Robot. But his creative genius did not stop there. Check out these five ...

Last week, at his home in Wilton, Connecticut, George Devol, the inventor of the first industrial robotic arm passed away. Devol's invention has reshaped production lines around the world. Famously ...

Born from a chance encounter between a robotics tinkerer and an Isaac Asimov-inspired engineer-turned-entrepreneur, the Unimate—a single-armed, vacuum tube-driven robot—was put to work on the assembly ...

The modern era of robotics was born in 1961 on a General Motors assembly line in New Jersey. Its name was Unimate. A heavy, ...

Robots are programmable machines that carry out various tasks for you. Using robots in your business may benefit you in several ways. They free up your employees from doing dangerous, heavy or ...