15 Engineers and Their Inventions That Defined Robotics

Robots have been around, in some form or other, since the ancient world. Early legends of automata existed in Greek and Roman legends and basic mechanical'robots' were designed and built in China and Greece. Our modern concept of robots wouldn't appear until the Industrial Revolution with the notion of the android (humanoid robot) coming into existence in 20th Century film and sci-fi literature. Since then many engineers have worked tirelessly to improve and, in some cases, redefine robotics. These 15 are just some of them. The following is far from exhaustive and is in no particular order. Their contribution to robotics: Joseph Endgelberger is widely credited for the birth of the robotics industry.