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Robot, First Unimate Robot Ever Installed on an Assembly Line, 1961
Devol, George C., 1912-2011, Engelberger, Joseph F., 1925-2015, and Unimation, Inc.1961
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
Unimate made the first successful industrial robots, and this is the first Unimate robot ever installed on an assembly line. The robot unloaded a die-casting press at the General Motors Ternstedt Division plant in Trenton, New Jersey in 1961. A hydraulically activated arm makes this an electro-hydraulic robot.
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- Title: Robot, First Unimate Robot Ever Installed on an Assembly Line, 1961
- Creator: Devol, George C., 1912-2011, Engelberger, Joseph F., 1925-2015, Unimation, Inc.
- Date Created: 1961
- Location: United States, Connecticut, Danbury, United States, New Jersey, Trenton
- Subject Keywords: General Motors Corporation, Assembly-line methods, Automobile industry, Firsts, Loading and unloading, Robots
- Type: Objects
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: Digital Collections
- Patent Date: 1961
- Object Name: Robot
- Object ID: 76.115.1
- Manufacturer: Unimation, Inc.
- Inventor: George Devol, Joseph Engelberger
- Invention: Industrial Robot
- Image ID: THF126342
- Field: Robotics
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Unimation.
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