Little bit history
A Japanese engineer from Yasukawa Electric Company coined the term "mechatronics" in 1969 to reflect the merging of mechanical and electrical engineering disciplines. Until the early 1980s, mechatronics meant a mechanism that is electrified. In the mid-1980s, mechatronics came to mean engineering that is the boundary between mechanics and electronics. Today, the term encompasses a large array of technologies, many of which have become well known in their own right. Each technology still has the basic element of the merging of mechanics and electronics but now also may involve much more, particularly software and information technology.