Unimate adalah robot industrial pertama,[1] yang mengerjakan produk General Motors di Inland Fisher Guide Plant, Ewing Township, New Jersey, pada tahun 1961.[2][3][4]
Robot tersebut dibuat oleh George Devol pada 1950-an. Devol mengurus hak paten asli atas Unimate pada tahun 1954. Hak paten ini disetujui pada tahun 1961.
Pada 2003, Unimate masuk Robot Hall of Fame.[5]
Dalam budaya masyarakat
suntingRobot-robot fiksi bernama Unimate, yang dirancang oleh karakter Alan von Neumann, Jr., muncul dalam buku-buku komik dari DC Comics.[6]
Referensi
sunting- ^ Nof, Shimon Y (1999). Handbook of Industrial Robotics (Edisi 2nd). John Wiley & Sons. hlm. 3–5. ISBN 0-471-17783-0.
- ^ 1961: Installation of the First Industrial Robot
- ^ Menzel, Peters; Faith D'Aluisio (2000). Robo sapiens: evolution of a new species. The MIT Press. hlm. 186–189. ISBN 0-262-13382-2.
- ^ Mickle, Paul. "1961: A peep into the automated future", The Trentonian. Accessed August 11, 2011. "Without any fanfare, the world's first working robot joined the assembly line at the General Motors plant in Ewing Township in the spring of 1961.... It was an automated die-casting mold that dropped red-hot door handles and other such car parts into pools of cooling liquid on a line that moved them along to workers for trimming and buffing. Its most distinct feature was a grip on a steel armature that eliminated the need for a man to touch car parts just made from molten steel."
- ^ The Robot Hall of Fame: Unimate
- ^ Booster Gold (vol. 2) #21 (August 2009)
