APT
(Automated
P r o g r a m m i n g
Language), the school
pro-grammed
its
machine to carry out
milling machine operations.3 A spiritual successor to this progenitor though was the first
ever industrial robot, in
the form of “UNIMATE”.
Conceived
by
Joe
Engelberger and George
Devol, UNIMATE was
de-ployed at General
Motors and helped
stack die-cast metal
via a set of instructions
stored in a magnetic
drum.4
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Unimate was the first
industrial robot,which
worked on a General
Motors assembly line
at the Inland Fisher
Guide Plant in Ewing
Township, New Jersey,
in 1961