自动门分为：旋转门、弧形门、平移门、紧急疏散平移门、平开门、折叠门、快速门等多种类别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）。其后，世界第一自动门品牌多玛在1945年将油压式、空气式自动门广泛推向市场，新建大楼的正门也开始使用了。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，现在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 are divided into: revolving doors, arc doors, translation doors, emergency evacuation sliding doors, flat doors, folding doors, fast doors and other categories of automatic doors began to be used in buildings after the 20th century. In the late 1920s, with the opening of supermarkets in the United States, automatic doors began to be used. In 1930, the American Stan interest rate first launched the world's first automatic door (this historical material is recorded in the New York Times). Since then, Domar, the world's first automatic door brand, introduced hydraulic and air type automatic doors to the market in 1945, and the main doors of new buildings began to be used. In 1962, electrical type has begun to appear, and then with the construction of the city, the field of automatic door technology is increasing every year. At the beginning, it was difficult to control the motor speed with the power supply for buildings, so we had to control the speed of oil pressure and air pressure. However, due to the low efficiency of energy utilization, with the development of electrical control technology, now the electrical control technology has matured, and the electric automatic door directly controlling the motor has gradually become the mainstream. For example: all kinds of automatic special doors with recognizable control, such as: induction automatic door (infrared induction, microwave induction, touch induction, pedal sensing), automatic door swiping card, etc.