Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly
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The PUMA (Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly, or Programmable Universal Manipulation Arm) is an industrial robot robot arm system developed by Vic Schienman at MIT for General Motors.
Pioneering industrial robot company Unimation produced PUMAs for years until being purchased by Westinghouse (ca. 1980), and later by French company Stäubli (1988). Nokia Robotics manufactured about 1500 PUMA robots during the 1980s, the Puma-650 being their most popular model with customers. Nokia sold their Robotics division in 1990.
External links
- Stäubli Robotics (http://www.staubli.com/web/robot/division.nsf)Template:Tech-stub