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Sketch of a Unimate robot Unimate pouring coffee for a human, 1967. Unimate was the first industrial robot, [1] which worked on a General Motors assembly line at the Inland Fisher Guide Plant in Ewing Township, New Jersey, in 1961. [2] [3] [4] There were in fact a family of robots.
Joseph Frederick Engelberger (July 26, 1925 – December 1, 2015) was an American physicist, engineer and entrepreneur. Licensing the original patent awarded to inventor George Devol, Engelberger developed the first industrial robot in the United States, the Unimate, in the 1950s.
In 1960, Devol personally sold the first Unimate robot, which was shipped in 1961 to General Motors. [5] GM first used the machine for die casting handling and spot welding of car bodies. [6] The first Unimate robot was installed at GM's Inland Fisher Guide Plant in Ewing Township, New Jersey in 1961 [7] [8] to lift hot pieces of metal from a ...
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George Charles Devol Jr. (February 20, 1912 – August 11, 2011) was an American inventor, best known for creating Unimate, the first industrial robot. [1] [2] The National Inventors Hall of Fame says, "Devol's patent for the first digitally operated programmable robotic arm represents the foundation of the modern robotics industry."
Unimate, the first digitally operated and programmable robot, was invented by George Devol in 1950 and "represents the foundation of the modern robotics industry." [65] [66] In Japan, robots became popular comic book characters. Robots became cultural icons and the Japanese government was spurred into funding research into robotics.
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Unimate: The first digitally operated and programmable non-humanoid robot, is installed on a General Motors assembly line to lift hot pieces of metal from a die casting machine and stack them. It was created by George Devol and constructed by Unimation, the first robot manufacturing company. [45] 1967 to 1972 WABOT-1