Robotics & Automation · Recorded milestone
Industrial robot
Recorded year1961
Unimate starts lifting hot die-cast parts at General Motors, launching factory automation.
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Led to
- Stanford ArmRecorded · 1969enables
- Microprocessor-driven robot armRecorded · 1974enables
- High-throughput screeningRecorded · 1990enables
- Milking robotRecorded · 1992enables
- Robot petRecorded · 1999enables
- Robotic surgeryRecorded · 2000enables
- Home robotRecorded · 2001enables
- Robots that build robotsRecorded · 2001enables
- Robot scientist AdamRecorded · 2009requires
- Robots maintain infrastructureRecorded · 2010enables
- AI recycling robotsRecorded · 2011requires
- Robot-staffed hotelRecorded · 2015enables
- Lights-out warehousesRecorded · 2018requires
- Reconfigurable homesRecorded · 2018enables
- Sim-to-real robot learningRecorded · 2019requires
- Robot foundation modelsRecorded · 2023requires
- Factory humanoid pilotsRecorded · 2024enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.