Unimate
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Unimate was the first industrial robot, which worked on a General Motors assembly line at the Inland Fisher Guide Plant in Ewing Township, New Jersey, in 1961. There were in fact a family of robots.
Unimate pouring coffee for a human, 1967
Robot Hall of Fame
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The Robot Hall of Fame, established in 2003 by Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, honors significant robots in science, society, and technology. As of 2025, 34 real and fictional
Unimate
…box, joined to another box and was connected to an arm, with systematic tasks stored in a drum memory. In 2003 the Unimate was inducted into the Robot Hall of Fame. The 1961 Unimate installed at a General Motors factory differed significantly from George Devol's 1954 patented design. The Unimate was a hydraulically…
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