History of robot
It is Digesting Duck. Jacques de Vaucanson made it in 1739. Digesting Duck is a automaton. automatons are origin of robot, there are easy machine. But there aren't robot.
Digesting Duck is precision instrument. So that is very important for history of robot. |
George C. Devol invented the first programmable robotic arm called called “Unimate” in 1954. He received a U.S. patent on the robotic arm in 1961.
Joseph F. Engelberger, an American engineer, founded the world’s first robot-manufacturing company in 1956. He acquired Devol's patent and modified it into an industrial robot. He is the “father of the robot.”
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