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  • Profilarbed, S.A. Steel Mill in Luxembourg. Makes steel from scrap metal with an electric furnace. Profilarbed is now part of the Groupe Arcelor.
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  • Safe cracking test at the Underwriters test Lab in Northbrook (Chicago) IL.
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  • Fiat car engine factory, Turin, Italy. In the 1980's Fiat used automated carriers guided by wires in the floor as well as more traditional conveyors (seen here) to move engines from one assembly station to another: LAM.
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  • Robotic welders at the Fiat car factory, Turin, Italy. Called Robogate in the 1980's.
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  • A dinamation robotic model of an Apatosaurus (with the skin removed showing the metal skeleton) at the Dallas Science museum. A time exposure shows how the neck and head respond to joystick commands. Dinamation International, a California-based company, makes a collection of robotic dinosaurs. The dinosaurs are sent out in traveling displays to museums around the world. The dinosaur's robotic metal skeleton is covered by rigid fiberglass plates, over which is laid a flexible skin of urethane foam. The creature's joints are operated by compressed air and the movements controlled by computer.
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  • Working around the clock without significant human input, industrial welding robots like these Swedish-made IRB 6400's build Sierra pickup truck bodies in the General Motors Truck and Coach Plant in East Pontiac, Michigan. In the plant's body shop, 300-odd robots work to produce 73 truck bodies an hour. Working with uncanny speed and surprising quiet, robots are increasingly moving human workers from exhausting, dangerous, and repetitive tasks to more intellectually rewarding jobs. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 190-191.
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  • The robotic dinosaur Triceratops moves from the welding station where its base was attached to the recording studio where sound will be added to the computer program. Dinamation International, a California-based company, makes a collection of robotic dinosaurs. The dinosaurs are sent out in traveling displays to museums around the world. The dinosaur's robotic metal skeleton is covered by rigid fiberglass plates, over which is laid a flexible skin of urethane foam. The plates and skin are sculpted and painted to make the dinosaurs appear as realistic as possible. The creature's joints are operated by compressed air and the movements controlled by computer.
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  • Rocketdyne Corporation: Canoga Park (near Los Angeles), California; a division of Rockwell Aerospace in 1986. Technician seen here checking welds on rockets engine cone with ultraviolet light. Rocketdyne is the premier rocket engine design and production company in the United States. The company was related to North American Aviation (NAA) for most of its history. NAA merged with Rockwell International,, which was then bought by Boeing in December, 1996. In February, 2005, Boeing reached an agreement to sell Rocketdyne to Pratt & Whitney, and this transaction was completed on August 2, 2005.
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