Manufacturing Industry
GM donates pioneer robot to Smithsonian. (Assembly Lines).
Assembly, July, 2002
WASHINGTON--The Smithsonian Institution held a ceremony in April to recognize the contributions of an industrial robot. General Motors Corp. (Detroit) donated the robot, named "Alice," to the National Museum of American History. It joins a collection of historically important robots that includes an early Unimate and the Odetics Odex 1.
Unlike her hydraulically controlled predecessors, Alice was the world's first commercially significant, computer-controlled electric robot. The programmable universal machine for assembly (PUMA) robot debuted in 1978 in assembly applications at Rochester Products, a GM division that eventually became Delphi Corp. It featured another robotic first--a special programming language that allowed it to be controlled off line.
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