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The tireless limb that never asks for a raise, a break, or your opinion.
means A programmable mechanical limb, usually jointed like a human arm, that grips, welds, lifts, or assembles with precision and repeatable motion.
from The "arm" is plain old English for a limb, but "robot" is the borrowed half: it comes from Czech robota, meaning "forced labor" or "drudgery," coined for the stage by writer Karel Čapek (credited to his brother Josef) in the 1920 play R.U.R. The word for servitude attached itself to the machine, and once engineers bolted that servant onto a swiveling steel limb, the "robotic arm" was named — a tool whose very root word means it was built to toil.
- Origin name
- Unimate, the first one, started welding in 1961
- Surgery duty
- Da Vinci systems suture inside you through tiny holes
- Space worker
- Canadarm caught satellites and built the ISS
- Speed demon
- Industrial arms move faster than a human eye tracks
- Six axes
- Most have six joints, mimicking shoulder to wrist
da vinci surgical system — fda-approved robotic surgery system used in over 1 million procedures since 2000
atlas robot arm — boston dynamics humanoid robot with articulated arms performing complex manipulation tasks
baxter collaborative robot — rethink robotics industrial cobot with dual arms for manufacturing and research, deployed since 2012
kuka kr agilus — german industrial robot arm widely used in automotive assembly at plants worldwide