General Motors

1 milestone · 1961

General Motors is featured for role in AI history through Unimate: First Industrial Robot in 1961 during The Birth of AI.

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Unimate: First Industrial Robot

The first Unimate robot was installed on a General Motors assembly line in New Jersey, performing die-casting and spot-welding tasks. It was the first industrial robot to replace humans on a production line.

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