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Aug 30, 2022 · He quickly moved on to other inventions, including the Phantom Doorman, an automated door-opening system; a proximity-controlled laundry press, the patent for which was withheld by the U.S. government through World War II; and the Speedy Weeny, a vending machine that dispensed hot dogs cooked by microwaves.
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Dec 17, 2002 · But some of those simulations were very good, and after the flight, we made them even better, because we discovered the arm didn’t work exactly like the simulator when we actually got around to deploying the Hubble.
Apr 19, 2018 · The evolution of the robotic arm, a product invented in the U.S. that came to define modern factories around the world. It wasn't an easy sell in America.
The original Unimate consisted of a large computer-like box, joined to another box and was connected to an arm, with systematic tasks stored in a drum memory. In 2003 the Unimate was inducted into the Robot Hall of Fame .
Aug 12, 2022 · Around the same time, robotics grew in a new dimension thanks to the academic Victor Scheinman. Working at Stanford University’s artificial intelligence (AI) lab, Scheinman created the world’s first viable multiaxis robotic arm, which gave robotics a far wider envelope of movement.
Aug 16, 2011 · The first robotic arm was installed at the General Motors plant in Ewing Township, New Jersey, lifting and stacking hot metal parts. The arm weighed 4,000 pounds and cost $25,000.
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Apr 27, 2014 · Steve Hawley became the astronomer and astronaut who used the robot arm of the space shuttle Discovery in 1990 to lift the Hubble Space Telescope out of the cargo bay while flying in orbit at...
