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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]
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.
Symbotic Inc. is an American robotics warehouse automation company based in Wilmington, Massachusetts. The company builds and operates automated warehouse systems for clients in the United States and Canada, using artificial intelligence in its software.
The company sells bricklaying services, not the robots that do the work using software from self-driving cars Startup emerges from stealth with $25 million for robots that lay bricks as fast as ...
The PUMA (Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly, or Programmable Universal Manipulation Arm) is an industrial robotic arm developed by Victor Scheinman at pioneering robot company Unimation. Initially developed by Unimation for General Motors , the PUMA was based on earlier designs Scheinman invented while at Stanford University based on ...
The automotive companies that had been Unimation's earliest and most reliable clients began moving away from the use of hydraulically powered robotic arms, like the Unimate, in the early 1980s in favor of electric motors, a change that Engelberger vehemently opposed. Sales fell, and the company was acquired by Westinghouse in 1982 for $107 million.
A heartwarming TikTok trend has users traveling down memory lane — virtually — by exploring old Google Maps photos of places with links to cherished memories and loved ones. Across the app ...
(The Center Square) – Younger people are drinking less beer and Wisconsin is seeing less aluminum recycling material at facilities that accept materials from local governments, according to a ...