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The History of Industrial Robots

  • First Industrial Robot

    First Industrial Robot

    Designed by George Devol
  • Founding the first company

    Founding the first company

    Found the company Unimation to manufacture the robot
  • The First Genration

    The First Genration

    OTC Japan introduced the arc welding robots
  • Robotic Arm

    Robotic Arm

    Motors installed to the joints of the arm, made it faster and more accurate than the other designs
  • Motoman ERC

    Motoman ERC

    Designed to control up to 12 axes
  • Almega AX series

    Almega AX series

    Introduced by OTC DAIHEN, a line of arc welding robots
  • Adept Technology

    Adept Technology

    With expiration of delta robot patents, introduces first delta robot the Quattro
  • Robot Industry

    Robot Industry

    Industry sees huge contraction with the advent global recession
  • Robots shipped

    Robots shipped

    121,000 industrial robots shipped according to International Federation of Robotics
  • COBOT Party

    COBOT Party

    Universal robot and Rethink face off to great interest and fanfare