I remember seeing Unimates that they pulled out of a GM Assembly plant in the mid to late 1970's. They were large robots.
I remember being told that they had a lot of problems with them, however I think the biggest problem was that they were way over the ability of the maintenance department to both understand and repair them. The plant engineer was very resistant to trying new things as it might risk production numbers. Dave On 8/18/2011 5:23 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > This may not mean anything to some, but today's Washington Post contains > a well-written obituary of George C. Devol, the self-taught inventor of > the robotic arm that came to be known as the Ultimate. He died August 11 > at his home in Connecticut. > > The obit contains a quote from him that reminds me of us sometimes. On > subject of his lack of formal education, he said "I always went into > areas of industry where nobody else knew anything either. There was > nowhere to go to get information, so I generated it." > > Regards, > Kent > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, > user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take > the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the > tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
