1937 | Earliest industrial robot invented by Bill Griffith P. Taylor |
1954 | First programmable industrial robot by George Charles Devol |
1956 | First robot company “Unimation” by George Charles Devol and entrepreneur Joseph F. Engelberger |
1960 | Condec Corporation purchases Unimation company; American Machine and Foundry developed a robot called Versatran designed by Harry Johnson and Veljko Milenkovic. |
1961 | First programmable industrial robot developed by George Charles Devol was granted |
1962 | First industrial robot developed by General Motors for spot welding and die casting |
1963 | Six-jointed Rancho Arm was developed to help handicapped |
1969 | Nachi started the business on Robotics; Standford Arm started robot arm production |
1973 | A robot named Famulus with 6 electromechanically driven axis was developed by German Robotics Company, Kuka |
1974 | Production of DC Servo motors were started; Fanuac factory started developing industrial robot |
1977 | Development of electrically powered industrial robot was started by an European robot company ASEA; Motoman L10 robot with 5 axes and 10 kg. maximum workload was developed |
1978 | Programmable University robot was developed by General Motors |
1979 | First motor-driven robot for spot welding; First arc welding robot was developed by OTC Company, Japan |
1980 | Several robot companies were introduced. |
1981 | First direct drive arm was developed |
1985 | First Miller robot was developed |
1992 | First intelligent robot was developed by Fanuc Robotics |
1996 | Cutting tool, bearing product ranges started to be developed |
2003 | Arc welding and handling robots |
2004 | Articulated and Cleanroom robots’ development started. |
2010 | Huge acceleration of demand for various types of robots |
2014 | 29% increase in the sale of robots throughout the entire world. |