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George Charles Devol Jr. (February 20, 1912 – August 11, 2011) was an American inventor, best known for creating Unimate, the first industrial robot. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The National Inventors Hall of Fame says, "Devol's patent for the first digitally operated programmable robotic arm represents the foundation of the modern robotics industry."
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It was invented by George Devol in the 1950s using his original patent filed in 1954 and granted in 1961 [5] (U.S. patent 2,988,237).The patent is titled "Programmed Article Transfer" (PAT) and begins:
Paris grew very quickly during the early Middle Ages and soon extended from the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève to the roads leading to the abbey of Saint-Denis. A new wall was begun in 1190 on the order and funding of King Philip II of France (also known as Philip Augustus) and was completed by 1213, [2] enclosing 253 hectares on both sides of the ...
Joseph Frederick Engelberger (July 26, 1925 – December 1, 2015) was an American physicist, engineer and entrepreneur. Licensing the original patent awarded to inventor George Devol, Engelberger developed the first industrial robot in the United States, the Unimate, in the 1950s.
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. [1] Devol had already applied for a patent an industrial robotic arm in 1954; U.S. patent 2,988,237 was issued in 1961. [2] [3] [4]
Image credits: Fine Art / Getty Images #4 Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 — December 5, 1926) Claude Monet was a French painter who, according to Laura Auricchio of the Department of Art and ...
Devol Brett (1923–2010), United States Army Air Forces general who piloted American aircraft during crises and wars from 1948 (the Berlin Crisis) through the Vietnam War (1960s) Frank Denny De Vol (1911–1999), sometimes known simply as DeVol, was an American arranger, composer and actor