1968 – Shinkai HU06 Submersible – (Japanese)

The Maritime Safety Agency operates the underwater research vehicle (URV) HU06 Shinkai, with the support vessel Otome Maru. Built by Kawasaki Heavy industries. The Skinkai was commissioned in 1968. Press Photo: The Yen400 million survey submarine is expected to be completed by the Science and Technology Agency by December 1968. The [yet] unmaned vessel, now …

1968 – Minsky-Bennett Arm – Marvin Minsky and Bill Bennett (American)

Marvin Minsky with his Arm. Photo by Dan McCoy in OMNI Magazine, June 1980. Also called the "Tentacle" Arm. Marvin Minsky   – Activating a dead crayfish claw Selected transcript "And that’s the anatomy of the mechanical arm I built that you see in the MIT Museum today" One of the first things that happened was …

1968 – Scripps Benthic Lab Tensor Arm – Victor C. Anderson (American)

FIGURE 95.—The Scripps tensor arm. Stress on the nylon filaments actuates the arm. (Courtesy of V. C. Anderson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) The "tensor arm," conceived by Victor Anderson, at the Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL) of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, has 16 degrees of freedom (fig. 95). The entire arm is hydraulically actuated by …

1968 – Legged Underwater Vehicle Patent – Hugh A. Ballinger (British)

1968 – Legged Underwater Vehicle Patent by Hugh A. Ballinger. Underwater vehicle Publication number    US3550386 A Publication date    29 Dec 1970 Filing date    28 Mar 1968 Priority date    31 Mar 1967 Inventors    Ballinger Hugh Anthony Original Assignee    Atomic Energy Authority UK An underwater vehicle comprising a free flooding streamlined body shell attached to a control …

1968 – Beaver Mark IV Submersible – Rockwell (American)

1968 – Beaver Mark IV Submersible by North American Rockwell. Renamed “Roughneck” in 1969. Each of the two manipulators has a 9-ft reach, eight degrees-of-freedom, and a 50-lb lifting capacity. The two manipulators can be equipped with nine different tools to perform various tasks. These tools are: impact wrench, hook hand, parallel jaws, cable cutter, …