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Robotics

Conveyors for Robotic Systems Integration in the Auto Industry

 A pallet conveyor system from mk North America, being used for robotic automation in an automotive factory setting.

Since the 1960s, the automotive manufacturing industry has been at the forefront of industrial robotics and automation. In fact, the first industrial robot in history, George Devol’s Unimate, worked welding die castings to auto bodies for a General Motors assembly line starting way back in 1961!

With the International Federation of Robots estimating that the automotive industry will account for at least half of the worldwide growth in the robotics industry through 2018, it doesn’t look like the relationship between robots and car companies is changing any time soon.

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