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First Industrial Robot

Era: Birth of AI · 1950s–1970s

Unimate became the first robot to work on an assembly line. General Motors installed it at its Trenton, New Jersey plant in 1961 to unload a die-casting press, taking the hot cast parts off the machine. Unimation built these units for work that was difficult, dangerous or monotonous for people.

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  1. Robot, First Unimate Robot Ever Installed on an Assembly Line, 1961

    The Henry Ford · Source type: institutional-archive

    Museum record for the machine itself: the first Unimate used on an assembly line, installed at the General Motors plant in Trenton, New Jersey in 1961 to unload a die-casting press.

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