Bad day on the assembly line?
Robotics? In the mid 60s? LOL
Your comment had me to do some research. I mentioned robotics, as I've seen early pictures of assembly lines, but never gave a thought about a timeline. So...I found this (pulled it out of a robotic article) about GM using robotics in 1961, however there was no mention of Chrysler. Interesting.
Mass Production and the Robotic Age
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, engineers around the world experimented with robotics as a means of industrial development. General Motors installed its own robotic arm to assist in the assembly line in 1961. In 1969, Stanford engineer Victor Scheinman created the Stanford Arm, a 6-axis robot that could move and assemble parts in a continuous repeated pattern. This invention expanded robot use in ways that continue to be applied in modern assembly. At Philips Electronics factory in the Netherlands, production is completed by a number of robot arms assigned to specific tasks.
