自动门分为：旋转门、弧形门、平移门、感应电动门、紧急疏散平移门、重叠门、折叠门、90度推开门、快速门等多种类别
Automatic doors are divided into: rotary door, arc door, translation door, induction electric door, emergency evacuation translation door, overlapping door, folding door, 90 degree push door, fast door and other categories.
自动门开始在建筑物上使用，是在二十世纪年以后。二十年代后期，美国的超级市场的开放，自动门开始被使用。1930年，美国史丹利率先推出世界上第一樘自动门（此史料记载于纽约时报）。到了1962年，电气式已开始出现，之后伴随着城市的建设，自动门技术的领域每年都在增加。当初，用供给建筑物用电源进行电动机的速度控制很难，只好进行油压、空压速度控制，转换但因能源利用效率很低，然而伴随着电气控制的技术发展，电气控制技术已经成熟，直接控制电动机的电气式自动门逐渐成为主流。例如：各种用可识别控制的自动专用门，如：感应自动门（红外感应，微波感应，触摸感应，脚踏感应）、刷卡自动门等。
Automatic doors began to be used in buildings after the twentieth century. In the late 1920s, American supermarkets opened and automatic doors began to be used. In 1930, the Stan interest rate first introduced the world's first diaphragm automatic door (recorded in the New York Times). By 1962, the electric type had begun to appear, and with the construction of the city, the field of automatic door technology was increasing every year. At the beginning, it was very difficult to control the speed of the motor with the power supply to buildings, so we had to control the speed of oil pressure and air pressure. But because of the low efficiency of energy utilization, with the development of electric control technology, the electric control technology has matured, and the electric automatic valve directly controlling the motor has gradually become the mainstream. For example, various automatic special doors with identifiable control, such as: induction automatic doors (infrared induction, microwave induction, touch induction, pedal induction), card swiping automatic doors, etc.