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Robotics has always been a fascinating topic for research and innovation which has its origin in ancient times, but the modern notion began to be established with the inception of the Industrial Revolution. The term “robot,” which in Czech means slave, was first coined in a play about the men working on the assembly lines of factories [3]. Also, the term “robotics” [4] was neologized by the American science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in his story “Runaround” in the year 1942. Who knew the robots dreamed of in fiction would become one of the revolutionary technologies in the near future [5]?

The first robot was invented in the year 1950 by George C. Devol [3], who patented a reprogrammable manipulator termed “Unimate.” He tried selling it to industry but failed. A few years later, in 1960 Joseph Engelberger, an engineer and businessman, procured the patent from Devol and modified it to make an industrial robot and established a company called Unimation to produce and sell the robots. His works and endeavors gave him the honorary title of “Father of Robotics” [6] in industry. So, it is uncanny that the robots that we have today were idealized from science fiction and now are revolutionizing technology.