The first commercial deployment was a programmable industrial robot called the Unimate, sold to General Motors in 1960 to lift hot pieces of metal from a die casting machine and stack them.

个商业署是一款名为尤尼梅特的可编程工业机器，于1960年售予通用汽车公司，用于从压铸机中取出高温金件并堆叠起来。