Victor Scheinman
✓ Source-basedfallingPioneer in the field of robotics
United StatesLived 1942 to 2016 · aged 73Fame38.9
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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 moved to Brooklyn and his father returned to work as a professor of psychiatry. His mother taught at a Hebrew school.
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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.
RobotWorld linear motor. Manipulators or sensors were mounted on the opposite face.About this person
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Lived 1942 to 2016 · aged 73
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