Victor Scheinman
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Victor David Scheinman was an American pioneer in the field of robotics. He was born in Augusta, Georgia, where his father Léonard was stationed with the US Army. At the end of the war, the family mov
Victor Scheinman at the MIT Museum with a PUMA robot in 2014
The Stanford arm, designed in 1969 by Scheinman and later built by him, was the first electric robot arm designed for computer control.
Scheinman's MIT Arm, built for MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab c. 1972, forerunner of the PUMA
Scheinman setting up his RobotWorld system in the Automatix booth at the Robots '86 show in Detroit in June 1986. The underside of the top is a two-dimensional linear motor grid. Small manipulators and camera sensor modules can move freely on the grid to perform assembly operations and other manipulations in the space underneath.
Unimation
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Unimation was the world's first robotics company. It was founded in 1962 by Joseph F. Engelberger and George Devol and was located in Danbury, Connecticut. Devol had already applied for a patent an in
Victor Scheinman
…a fellowship sponsored by George Devol, the inventor of the Unimate, the first industrial robot. Scheinman traveled with Devol and Joe Engelberger to Unimation and several of its customers, observing robot applications, including loading and unloading machines, handling material, and early attempts to do spot…
Unimate 500 PUMA (1983) and control unit at the Deutsches Museum, Munich