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  Report: Slave and Expert Systems

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  1961: Installation of the First Industrial Robot


Industrial robotics, an automation technology relying on the two technologies of numerical control and teleoperators, started to gain widespread attendance in the 1960s. The first industrial robot was installed at General Motors in 1961. Developed by Joe Engelberger and George Devol, UNIMATE obeyed step-by-step commands stored on a magnetic drum and with its 4,000 pound arm sequenced and stacked hot pieces of die-cast metal.




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Slave and Expert Systems
    Introduction: The Substitution of Human Faculties with Technology: Early Tools
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-3   1940s - 1950s: The Development of Early Robotics Technology
-2   1950s: The Beginnings of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research
-1   Late 1950s - Early 1960s: Second Generation Computers
0   1961: Installation of the First Industrial Robot
+1   Late 1960s - Early 1970s: Third Generation Computers
+2   1960s - 1970s: Increased Research in Artificial Intelligence (AI)
+3   1960s - 1970s: Expert Systems Gain Attendance
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1980s: Artificial Intelligence (AI) - From Lab to Life
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Wide Area Network (WAN)
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