In the last decade we have seen more robotics innovation becoming real products and companies than in the entire history of robotics. Furthermore, the greater Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area is at the center of this'Cambrian Explosion in Robotics' as Dr Gill Pratt, Director of Robotics at Toyota Research Institute described it. In fact, two of the very first robots were developed right here. In 1969 at Stanford, Vic Sheinman designed the first electric robot arm able to be computer controlled. After successful pilots and interest from General Motors, Unimation acquired the concept and released the PUMA or Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly.