Robotics Pioneers

Inventors, engineers and researchers who created the industrial robot and the robot arm and set the course of the field, including the Unimate, the first programmable industrial robot, the businessman who put it into factories, the designer of an influential computer controlled arm and a roboticist who changed how robots are made to behave. A person belongs here when the cited article calls the person a robotics pioneer or credits the person with building a robot or robot arm. It excludes authors of fiction about robots.