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China is the largest industrial robot market [21]: 256 with 154,032 units sold in 2018. [20] China had the largest operational stock of industrial robots, with 649,447 at the end of 2018. [22] The United States industrial robot-makers shipped 35,880 robot to factories in the US in 2018 and this was 7% more than in 2017. [23]
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.
Now, a company called Micropsi Industries is looking to make even industrial robots closer to humans. “We make a control system that allows industrial robots to do things that without our ...
Pages in category "Industrial robots" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Sketch of a Unimate robot. Unimation was the world's first robotics company. It was founded in 1962 by Joseph F. Engelberger and George Devol and was located in Danbury, Connecticut. [1] Devol had already applied for a patent an industrial robotic arm in 1954; U.S. patent 2,988,237 was issued in 1961. [2] [3] [4]
A pick and place robot in a factory. Industrial robots usually consist of a jointed arm (multi-linked manipulator) and an end effector that is attached to a fixed surface. One of the most common type of end effector is a gripper assembly. The International Organization for Standardization gives a definition of a manipulating industrial robot in ...
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."
The Stanford arm is an industrial robot with six degrees of freedom, designed at Stanford University by Victor Scheinman in 1969. [1] The Stanford arm is a serial manipulator whose kinematic chain consists of two revolute joints at the base, a prismatic joint , and a spherical joint .