Kristin Dziczek is vice president of the Industry, Labor, & Economics group of the Center for Automotive Research Automotive is one of the most highly-automated industries in the world, and it has been a leading force in expanding the use of industrial automation for decades. In fact, the first industrial robot in production was a Unimation UNIMATE that GM installed on a die-casting line in New Jersey in 1962.
Developments such as the Stanford Arm and MIT’s Silver Arm that were initially deployed in automotive led to widespread proliferation of industrial automation in the US auto industry throughout the 1970s […]
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