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jan 2, 1954 - 1954

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George Devol and Joe Engleberger design the first programmable robot ‘arm’. This later became the first industrial robot, completing dangerous and repetitive tasks on an assembly line at General Motors (1962).

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jan 2, 1954
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~ 71 years ago