The history of the automation industry is characterized by periods of constant technological innovations. This is because the techniques of automation are well connected to global economic events.

The use of industrial robots along with systems for computer aided design (CAD) systems and computer aided manufacturing (CAM), are the latest trend in automation of the processes of manufacture and then loaded into the robot .. These technologies led to another transition to automation of unknown scope.

Although the growth market of industrial robotics has been slow compared with the early years of the 80’s, according to some predictions, the robotics industry is in its infancy. Whether these predictions are carried out completely, or not, it is clear that the robotics industry in one form or another, will remain. Read the rest of this entry »

For centuries, humans have built machines that mimic parts of human body. The ancient Egyptians joined mechanical arms to the statues of their gods. These arms were operated by priests, who claimed that the movement of these was inspired by their gods. The Greeks built statues operating with systems using water, which were used to fascinate the worshipers at the temples.

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe were built very ingenious mechanical toys that had some character isticas robots.
Jacques de Vauncansos built several musicians from human size to the mid-eighteenth century. Is essentially mechanical robots designed for a specific purpose: fun.

In 1805, Henry built a doll Maillardert mechanic who was able to make drawings. A series of cams were used as the ‘program’ for the device in the process of writing and drawing. These creations of human mechanics should be regarded as investments that reflect the individual genius of men who anticipated his time. There were other mechanical inventions during the industrial revolution created by the same genius minds, many of which were directed to the field of producing textiles. They include spinning the rotating Hargreaves (1770), the spinning mechanical Crompton (1779), the mechanical loom Cartwright (1785), the Jacquard loom (1801), and others.

The development in technology, which includes the powerful computers electronic actuators to control feedback, transmission of power through gears, and the technology in sensors have helped to ease the automatic mechanism to perform tasks within the industry. There are several factors that intervene to develop the first robot in the 50’s. The research in artificial intelligence developed ways to emulate the processing of information in human computer electronic and invented a variety of mechanisms to test their theories.

Notwithstanding the limitations of current robotic machine, the concept is popular in a robot that looks human and acts as such. Humanoid This concept has been inspired and encouraged by several science fiction stories.

A work published in 1917 by Czechoslovakian Karel Kapek called Rossum’s Universal Robot, led to the term robot. The Czech word ‘robot’ means servitude or forced labor, and when translated into English became the term robot. This story concerns a brilliant scientist named Rossum and her son, who developed a substance chemical that is similar to the protoplasm. The substance used to manufacture robots, and their plans are that the robots serve the human kind of obedience to all physical work. Rossum continues to make improvements in the design of robots, and other organs eliminates unnecessary elements, and finally developed to be a ‘perfect’. The argument is experiencing an unpleasant turn when the robot is not perfect to begin fulfilling its role of servers and rebel against their owners, destroying all human life.

Among the writers of science fiction, Isaac Asimov contributed several stories on robots, began in 1939, it is attributed to the wedging of the term Robotics. The image of a robot that appears in his work is that of a well designed machine with a security guarantee that operates under three principles.

These principles were called the Three by Asimov Laws of Robotics, and are:

A robot may not act against a human being or, through inaction, that a human being suffers harm.
A robot must obey orders given by humans unless they are in conflict with the first law.
A robot must protect its own existence, unless it is in conflict with the first two laws.