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The International Robot Industry Report (Paperback)
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Like many other new technologies which have since been seized and
exploited by others, the industrial robot is a British invention.
In 1957, a patent was produced by a British inventor, Cyril Walter
Kenward, and later it became crucial to the future of robotics. For
across the Atlantic two robot builders, Unimation and AMF, both
infringed this patent and ultimately a cash settlement was made to
Kenward. The owner of Unimation Inc. was Joseph Engelberger, an
entrepreneur and avid reader of Isaac Asimov, the writer who helped
to create the image of the benevolent robot. It is claimed that
Engelberger's journey of fame down the road which led to him being
hailed as the 'father of robotics' can be traced to the day that he
met George C. Devol at a cocktail party. Devol was an inventor with
an impressive list of patents to his name in the electronics field.
One of Devol's patent applications referred to a Programmed
Transfer Article. Devol's patent was issued in 1961 as US Patent
2,988,237, and this formed the basis of the Unimate robot which
first saw the light of day in 1960. The first Unimate was sold to
Ford Motor Company which used it to tend a die-casting machine. It
is perhaps ironic that the first robot was used by a company which
refused to recognise the machine as a robot, preferring instead to
call it a Universal Transfer Device.
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