History of Industrial Robots

By Mahayla

  • BA006N

    BA006N
    Kawasaki arc welding robots use state-of-the-art technology to match the quality of an expert welder. The maximum reach is 1,445 mm

  • Crain-like

    Crain-like
    The first industrial robot was created by Griffith “Bill” P. Taylor in 1937 and appeared in Meccano Magazine the following year. It was a crane-like design that had five-axis of movement.

  • Unimate

    Unimate
    In 1954 George Devol invented the first computer-operated and was a programmable robot called the Unimate. In 1956 Devol and his partner made the first robot company.

  • Unimation

    Unimation
    This robot was created to lift and stack hot pieces of metal together. This robot was made in 1961.

  • Polar

    Polar
    This robot is also called a spherical robot. The axes form a polar coordinate system and create a spherical-shaped work envelope. This was made in 1961.

  • IRB 1100

    IRB 1100
    IRB 1100 provides 35% increased productivity and up to 10% space savings. This robot is flexible and small. The IRB 1100 robot design was smaller and has a 20% weight reduction.

  • SCARA

    SCARA
    This robot is mostly used in assembly applications. The creator was Professor Hiroshi Makino a professor in Japan.

  • Cartesian

    Cartesian
    Cartesian robots are robots that move on an x and y-axis. These robots are also called rectilinear or gantry robots. They were made in 1980.

  • Cylindrical

    Cylindrical
    This robot was made in the Soviet Union in 1985. Cylindrical robots operate within a cylindrical-shaped work envelope. This is why they are called cylindrical because the base shape is a cylinder.

  • Delta

    Delta
    These spider-like robots are built from jointed parallelograms connected to a common base. They are used in the food, pharmaceutical, and electronic industries, this robot configuration is capable of delicate, precise movement.