Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The history of robots in manufacturing goes back to 1962, when a 4,000-pound, one-armed ...

History is also littered with examples of complex automata designed to wow audiences with their life-like movements. But the word "robot" was first introduced by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in his ...

TL;DR: Elon Musk predicts widespread demand for Tesla's Optimus humanoid robots, aiming for 500,000 units by 2027. He envisions a future with a high robot-to-human ratio, potentially eliminating the ...

Robots are often used in animated movies to cast light on uniquely human quirks, which helps explain why they are central to so many classic movies. Some of the best animated movies ever focus on ...

Warning! This article contains spoilers for The Electric State. Since The Electric State's opening sequence suggests that Walt Disney was the first to create robots, many viewers may be curious ...

In the 1950s, as Isaac Asimov’s Foundation short stories were fixed up into his Foundation novels, the author was dabbling with a different sci-fi continuity altogether, the future history of robots.