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What job did the first Unimate robot perform at a General Motors factory?
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ASIMO, a two-legged humanoid robot developed by the Honda Motor Co.
The first production-line Unimate robot, installed at a General Motors Corporation factory in 1961, performed the task of removing and stacking hot metal parts from a die-casting machine. This work was considered an unsavory task for human workers due to the heat and nature of the labor.1