DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT OF ROBOTIC ARM REMOTE CONTROLLED THROUGH A TCP/IP NETWORK

However, it is a very good starting guide for learning the engineering behind building a robotic arm from scratch. It begins by illustrating the basic theories behind a (traditional) robotic arm and gives a systematic process of building a robotic arm, broken down into different phases of the project. 

It is also a good guide on how to build a professional software for managing the arm, and how to remotely control it through a computer which is geographically placed at another location than the arm itself. Since the book was developed from an actual project at IIT, Roorkee (which won the Institute Medal in 2003)