darth_nadoma OP t1_iu4nkog wrote on October 28, 2022 at 2:57 PM

Reply to comment by bawng in Forget the Humanoids, Industrial robots will transform the world by darth_nadoma

Weren’t they invented in 1956?

Until relatively recently technology was too immature and expensive and human labor was too cheap for them to be used en masse.

bawng t1_iu4w96m wrote on October 28, 2022 at 3:56 PM

> The earliest known industrial robot, conforming to the ISO definition was completed by "Bill" Griffith P. Taylor in 1937 and published in Meccano Magazine, March 1938. The crane-like device was built almost entirely using Meccano parts, and powered by a single electric motor.

Yeah I probably read a bit too quickly. 1937 was just the first robot that met the ISO definition, but it was not a real industrial robot.