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		<title>1959 &#8211; &#8220;TransfeRobot&#8221; &#8211; Shelley et al (American)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 08:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; TRANSFER ROBOT 200 &#8211; NEW BOND STREET 2607.10 &#124; TRANSFER ROBOT 200 &#8211; NEW BOND STREET (1:13:11:00 &#8211; 1:14:31:00) 1961 London. LS. Mr Miduch, the mechanic, switches on three robots. CU. Mechanic looking on. CU. Robots working. CU. Switch panel. CU. One robot working. MS. Three robots working together, they pause and two robots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1954 &#8211; Programmed Article Transfer Patent &#8211; George C. Devol Jr. (American)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 08:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Programmed Article Transfer by&#160;George C. Devol Jr. See full patent details&#160;here. Patent number: 2988237 Filing date: Dec 10, 1954 Issue date: Jun 13, 1961 Joseph Engelberger on the left, George Devol Jr on the right &#8211; c1960 [Image credit: The Estate of George C. Devol] In the patent, Devol wrote, &#34;the present invention makes available [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1950 &#8211; General Electric Robotic Manipulator &#8211; (American)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 08:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five-ton robot on wheels sticks out it arm to turn a &#34;hot&#34; valve in Hanford plutonium plant. One-Armed Robot Tackles Hot Jobs A ONE-ARMED robot is turning the valves in the giant plant at Hanford, Wash., that makes A-bomb plutonium out of uranium. The new robot looks like a railroad handcar with a small Navy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1892 &#8211; Crane &#8211; Seward Babbitt (American)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 08:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CRANE by SEWARD S. BABBITT. See full patent details here. Patent number: 484870 Filing date: Jun 13, 1892 Issue date: Oct 25, 1892 Seward Babbitt&#39;s crane&#160;first mentioned around 1980 in terms of robotics history and timelines in textbooks,&#160;but in terms of enabling technology only, rather than being identified as a robot in itself.&#160; That distinction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1934-78 &#8211; Spray-paint robot patents &#8211; Pollard Jr, Pollard, Roselund and DeVilbiss Comp. &#8211; (American)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 12:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cyberne1</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pollard Jr SPRAY PAINTING MACHINE by&#160;&#160;Willard Lacey George Pollard Jr. See full patent here. Patent number: 2213108 Filing date: Oct 29, 1934 Issue date: Aug 27, 1940 Pollard Sr &#160; POSITION-CONTROLLING APPARATUS by&#160;&#160;W. L. V. POLLARD Sr. See full patent here.&#160; Patent number: 2286571 Filing date: Apr 22, 1938 Issue date: Jun 16, 1942 Roselund [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1965-7 &#8211; Trallfa spray-paint robot  &#8211; Ole Molaug and Sverre Bergene (Norweigan)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Images and text source from here. The original name of ABB&#8217;s robot factory at Bryne was Trallfa, a company that pioneered development of a robot for spray painting in 1965 &#8211; 67. It has its origin in a company manufacturing wheelbarrows, sack trolleys and transport equipment, which was founded in Bryne in 1941 by Nils [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1954, March – &#8220;Positioning or Manipulating Apparatus&#8221; patent by Cyril Kenward (British)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 04:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another early patent that looks surprisingly modern was granted for a robot called &#39;Improvements in or relating to Positioning or Manipulating Apparatus&#39; invented by Cyril W. Kenward. The British patent was filed March 29, 1954 and was published August 21, 1957, and preceded George Devol&#39;s first robot patent by several months. It is an interesting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1958-62 &#8211; &#8220;VERSATRAN&#8221; Industrial Robot &#8211; Harry Johnson &amp; Veljko Milenkovic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 04:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1958, the American Machine and Foundry (AMF) Thermatool Corporation (later known as AMF Corporation,&#160;later acquired by Prab Company of Michigan)&#160; initiated an R&#38;D project for a Versatile Transfer Machine, or VERSATRAN, a programmable cylindrical coordinate frame robotic arm designed by Harry Johnson and Veljko Milenkovic.&#160;AMF introduced Model 102, a continuous-path transfer device, and Model [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1962 &#8211; &#8220;FLEXIMAN&#8221; &#8211; Anthony Kaye (American)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 03:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cyberne1</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mary Locke getting what robots like to give. Patent Information: MECHANISM FOR REMOTE MANIPULATION OF INDUSTRIAL OBJECTS Anthony J. Kaye et al See full patent details here.&#160; Patent number: 3173555 Filing date: Sep 7, 1962 Issue date: Mar 16, 1965 This invention relates generally to mechanism for positioning or otherwise manipulating objects, tools and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1956 &#8211; &#8220;PLANOBOT&#8221; Pick-and-Place Industrial Robot &#8211; Joe B. Brown (Planet Corp.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 03:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cyberne1</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Source: Popular Mechanics,&#160; Dec 1957. Although I&#39;ve seen dates suggesting the Planobot was around since 1955, The first dates I&#39;ve seen in publications start in 1956.&#160; The patent itself was filed 13 Mar 1957. &#34;Planobot is for automationeers. It&#39;s a transfer device (Planet Corp., 1820 Sunset St., Lansing, Mich.) with five basic motions: Grasping [...]]]></description>
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