Here's how I became an robotics professional. It started with trying to build a robotic hand as a teenager in my parent's garage. This was after I first learned how servo systems worked. I barely got the servo part working, but it was a start. Later I went to college to get an un...
"Engelberger, who built the first industrial robot, called Unimate, in 1958, attributes his long-standing fascination with robots to his reading of [Asimov's] 'I, Robot' when he was a teenager", and Engelberger later invited Asimov to write the foreword to his robotics manual. ...