Chapter overview
- The Automata of Jaquet-Droz
- R.U.R. and the Name of the Robot
- The Programmable Arm
- Unimate and the Factory
- Shakey and Early Artificial Intelligence
- KR FAMULUS and Electric Six-Axis Robotics
- WABOT-1 and the Humanoid Question
- PUMA 560 and the Medical Precursor
- Cobots and the Art of Shared Motion
- Sojourner on Mars
- Early Consumer Social Robotics
- ASIMO and the Public Figure of the Humanoid
- Roomba and the Robot in the Home
- Fleets, Data, and Learning Bodies
- Autonomous Field Work
- Robotic Transformers and Physical AI
- Humanoid Robots Leave the Lab
- Logistics Fleets as AI Infrastructure
- Da Vinci 5 and the Next Surgical Generation
- The open frontier of 2026