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The Robot Reaches for a Coke
Dan | December 15, 1956 issue

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This article focuses on the Third International Automation Exhibit. The last of November was officially proclaimed Automation Week in New York City. Nearly 200 companies put their automatic wares on exhibit in the Trade Show Building on Eighth Avenue. The bulk of the show was a spectacle of automated elimination of tasks. The fellow in command at the pay-as-you-go booth pulled out a leaflet with a picture of a large machine which was reaching out an arm and opening itself a Coca Cola. The pay-as-you-go man said that this was a robot whose arms could reach out and take an object from one machine and put it into another, as well as a man could.

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ROBOTS; EXHIBITIONS; AUTOMATION; ROBOTICS; COCA Cola (Registered trademark); MECHANIZATION
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