Sankyo Seiki · Industrial · 1981
The first commercial SCARA robot. Hiroshi Makino’s Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm concept (1978, Yamanashi University) reached factories in 1981 — rigid vertically, compliant horizontally, perfect for pick-and-place. SCARA remains a dominant assembly architecture today.
| Category | Industrial |
| Status | Retired |
| Year | 1981 |
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