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The Story of the First Robot: A Mechanical Pioneer
A plain-language overview of where the word robot came from, the clockwork machines that preceded it, and the path from factory arms to modern robotics.
Tools and Industry
Robotics
From clockwork automata to the first factory robot arms.
The Story of the First Robot Arm: Unimate
How a jointed, hydraulically driven arm with a stored program took over dangerous factory tasks, and how its design set the pattern for industrial robot arms.
The Story of the First Robot: A Mechanical Marvel
How clockwork figures and automata, from ancient legends to 18th-century showpieces, anticipated robots long before industrial machines existed.
The Story of the First Robot: Unimate
The people behind Unimate, the patent and company that grew from their idea, and the 1961 General Motors installation often called the first industrial robot.
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