ASEA Produces the IRb 6, the First Microcomputer Controlled Electric Industrial Robot

The ASEA IRb 6, designed and constructed by Björn Weichbrodt, Ove Kullborg, Bengt Nilsson and Herbert Kaufmann, and manufactured by ASEA in Västerås in central Sweden, was the first microcomputer controlled electric industrial robot, using Intel's first chipset. The robot allowed movement in 5 axes with a lift capacity of 6 kg. 

1900 copies of the IRB 6 were sold between 1975 and 1992.