Discover the History of Robotics and Automation

The IEEE RAS Robotics and Automation History Project is both an archive and a discovery platform, capturing the field’s pioneers through in-depth interviews, photographs, video, and archival documents.

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Discover the archive through multiple lenses: by technical area, era, geography, application area, or format.

By Geography
The global landscape of robotics research
By Application Area
Healthcare, manufacturing, space, and beyond
Interviews
In-depth conversations with the field’s pioneers

Featured Videos

Short topical highlights from the archive’s oral-history collection.

Robotics Conferences
Robot Ethics
Defining Robots
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Robotics Atlas

A visual atlas of robotics research

Two complementary views of the field: a temporal view of citation communities and a spatial view of the institutional landscape behind six decades of robotics research.

Citation dynamics

Robotics evolution visualization

Follow the rise and decline of major citation communities across the robotics corpus and the humanoid subset, then drill into the network structure within each cluster.

  • React
  • Timelines
  • Citation communities
Open evolution view

Spatial view

Institution map visualization

Inspect the geographic and network footprint of robotics institutions through an interactive map of the collaboration landscape.

  • Map
  • Institutions
  • Helios
Open map view

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