First Industrial Robot Ever Installed on an Assembly Line | Innovation Nation

On this segment of Innovation Nation, Mo Rocca meets with Chief Curator Marc Greuther to talk about the first Unimate robot ever installed on an assembly line. Unimate robots were the world’s first successful industrial robots. The units, designed by Unimation Inc., could perform tasks in manufacturing facilities that were difficult, dangerous, or monotonous for human workers. This is the first Unimate ever used on an assembly line. It was installed at the General Motors plant in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1
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