1964 – UNUMO UNiversal Underwater MObot – Hughes Aircraft (American)

Source: The Advanced Handbook of Robotics, Safford.   Source: Popular Mechanics, Aug, 1963. Source: Teleoperator Operations. The MOBOT (MObile roBOT) was developed by Hughes Aircraft Company and is used by Shell Oil Company of California as an underwater wellhead manipulator. MOBOT, which is shown in Figure 16, consists of an electro-hydraulic vehicle designed to be …