Editing Industrial robot (section)

=== Autonomous robot ===
An '''autonomous robot''' is a [[robot]] that acts without recourse to human control. The first autonomous robots  environment were known as [[Elmer and Elsie (robots)|Elmer and Elsie]], which were constructed in the late 1940s by [[William Grey Walter|W. Grey Walter]]. They were the first [[robots]] in history that were programmed to "think" the way biological brains do and meant to have free will.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-03-07 |title=The very first robot "brains" were made of old alarm clocks |url=https://gizmodo.com/the-very-first-robot-brains-were-made-of-old-alarm-cl-5890771 |access-date=2024-01-11 |website=Gizmodo |language=en}}</ref> Elmer and Elsie were often labeled as tortoises because of how they were shaped and the manner in which they moved. They were capable of [[phototaxis]] which is the movement that occurs in response to light stimulus.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grey Walter Constructs the First Electronic Autonomous Robots; the Origin of Social Robotics : History of Information |url=https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=854 |access-date=2024-01-11 |website=www.historyofinformation.com}}</ref>