1954 → today
Robots in Industry
工业机器人
From Unimate to modern cobots: how robotic arms remade manufacturing, and how humans and machines now share the factory floor.
From the curator
The first robots did not look human — they looked like arms. This gallery follows the articulated arm from a single station on a 1961 assembly line to today's collaborative robots that work safely beside people.
Timeline
- 1954George Devol files the patent for the first programmable robot
- 1961Unimate begins work on a General Motors assembly line
- 1969Victor Scheinman builds the electric Stanford Arm
- 1973KUKA's Famulus is among the first six-axis electric robots
- 1978The PUMA arm brings robots to precision assembly
- 2008Lightweight collaborative robots (cobots) reach the market
Official films
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