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.

首个商业部署是一款名为尤尼梅编程工业机器，于1960年售予通用司，用于从压铸机中取出高温金属部件并堆叠起来。