Credit: Gildardo Sánchez, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons While the Unimate was the first robotic arm to go into production, the Stanford Arm became the blueprint for the emerging industrial ...

The birth of the robotic arm The industrial robotic arm's journey began in the 1950s with the invention of the Unimate by George Devol and Joseph Engelberger. Installed at a General Motors ...

It wasn't long before Chrysler, Ford, and other manufacturers sought Unimates of their own and in short time, hundreds of the robotic arm were employed. By 1966, the Unimate entered full-scale ...