What are industrial robots? Where are they generally utilized?

Industrial robots are multi-jointed manipulators or multi-degree-of-freedom robots for the industrial field. An industrial robot is a machine device that performs work automatically, and is a machine that relies on its own power and control to realize various functions. It can accept human command, or run according to a pre-programmed program, and modern industrial robots can also act according to the principle program developed by artificial intelligence technology. Industrial robots in industrial production can replace people to do some monotonous, frequent and repetitive long hours of work, or dangerous, harsh environment, such as in stamping, pressure casting, heat treatment, welding, painting, plastic molding, machining and simple assembly and other processes, as well as in the atomic energy industry and other sectors, to complete the handling of hazardous materials or process operations.　At the end of the 1950s, the United States in the robot and operator based on the use of servo mechanisms and automatic control and other technologies, the development of a general-purpose independent industrial automatic operating devices, and will be known as industrial robots; in the early 1960s, the United States developed two industrial robots, and soon be applied in industrial production; 1969, General Motors Corporation with 21 industrial robots Composition of the welding car body of the automatic production line. Since then, the industrialized countries have attached great importance to the development and application of industrial robots.　As industrial robots have a certain degree of versatility and adaptability, can adapt to multi-species production in small batches, from the 70's, often combined with digitally controlled machine tools, to become a flexible manufacturing unit or part of the flexible manufacturing system.