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George Devol and Joe Engelberger design the first programmable robot arm This later became the first industrial robot completing dangerous and repetitive tasks on an assembly line at General Motors (1962).
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The Soviet Union launches ‘Sputnik’, the first artificial orbiting satellite. This marks the beginning of the space race.
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