Elektro, a household robot made by Westinghouse Electric Company, was exhibited at the new york World Expo. It is controlled by cables, can walk, can speak 77 words and even smoke, but it is far from really doing housework. But it makes people's yearning for home robots more concrete.
1956
George Devol, an American, made the world's first programmable robot and registered a patent. This kind of manipulator can do different jobs according to different programs, so it is universal and flexible.
1959
Dewar cooperated with American inventor Joseph engelberg to create the first industrial robot. Subsequently, Unimation Company, the world's first robot manufacturing factory, was established. Because of engelberg's research and promotion of industrial robots, he is also called "the father of industrial robots". -common sense science and technology articles.