He continually dipped into the money he had earned from his books and even his wife's family inheritance to keep the dying machine afloat, but it was all for naught.

他不断挪用作品的收入甚至妻子家族的遗产来贴补这款濒临淘汰的机器的运转，但这一切已经是徒劳无功了。

The first commercial deployment was a programmable industrial robot called the Unimate, sold to General Motors in 1960 to lift hot pieces of metal from a die casting machine and stack them.

第一个商业部署是名为 Unimate 的可编程工业机器人，它于 1960 年卖给了通用汽车公司，用于从压铸机中取出热金属片并将它们堆叠起来。