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.

第一个商业部署是名为 Unimate 的可编程工业机器人，于 1960 年给了通用汽车公司，用于从压铸机中取出热金属片并堆叠起来。