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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 ...
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.
Licensing the original patent awarded to inventor George Devol, Engelberger developed the first industrial robot in the United States, the Unimate, in the 1950s. Later, he worked as entrepreneur and vocal advocate of robotic technology beyond the manufacturing plant in a variety of fields, including service industries, health care, and space ...
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."
PUMA 560 C robot arm segment measurements. [4] 6 Axis arm with 3 axis making up a spherical wrist. [5] Maximum reach 878mm from center axis to center of wrist [5] Software selectable payloads from 4 kg to 2.5 kg [5] Arm weight: 83 kg (approximate) [6] Repeatability ±0.1mm [7] 2.5 kg max velocity: 500mm/sec straight line moves [7]
It follows a robot named Roz (voiced by Lupita Nyong'o) who, after ending up on an island inhabited by wildlife, learns their ways and becomes a motherly figure to a young gosling.
"R.U.R." stands for Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum's Universal Robots, [1] a phrase that has been used as a subtitle in English versions). [2] The play had its world premiere on 2 January 1921 in Hradec Králové ; [ 3 ] it introduced the word " robot " to the English language and to science fiction as a whole. [ 4 ]
In 1926, Westinghouse Electric Corporation created Televox, the first robot put to useful work. In the 1930s, they created a humanoid robot known as Elektro for exhibition purposes, including the 1939 and 1940 World's Fairs. [10] [11] Unimate was the first industrial robot, [3] which worked on a General Motors assembly line in New Jersey in 1961.