The History of Industrial Robots, From Single Taskmaster to Self-Teacher

The 15th and 16th centuries aren’t commonly known for robotics, but the Renaissance era’s artists, scientists, and inventors, like Leonardo Da Vinci, first imagined the automated mechanisms that would eventually lead to robots.

The first true industrial robot appeared half a millennium later, created in 1930 out of the model construction system Meccano. The industry took a quantum leap forward when the 1960s ushered in the computer era, and since then, every decade has brought exponential advances alongside other technologies.

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