General Motors Installs the First Unimate Industrial Robot
ESTIMATED70% CONFIDENCEWikipedia[3], the Henry Ford museum and Guinness World Records[2] all date the first Unimate installation to 1961, but none give a specific month or day.
In 1961 General Motors installed the Unimate, the world's first industrial robot, at its New Jersey factory to lift and stack hot die-cast metal parts. Industry 4.0 opens its history of factory automation with this machine.
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