1958-62 – "Beetle" Mobile Manipulator. Background Information: Popular Mechanic's (Sep 1956) drawing made by Frank Tinsley from designs by Lee A. Ohlinger of Northrop Aviation, Inc. of a robot mechanic for the proposed atomic-powered airplane, a star-crossed project that stumbled through 10 years and $500,000 without ever getting off the ground. General Mills was one …
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1960c – Lee Mobile Manipulator. [I presently have no other information on this mobile manipulator.] The Lee Model 6A Manipulator was used on the mobile platform. 1974 Centaure Mobile Manipulator (French). The CEE-VEE Remote Mobile Vehicle with crane-like manipulator See other early Space Teleoperators here.
1985 – ACEC Mobile Inspection Vehicle The manipulators are master-slave force feed-back and electrically driven. The ACEC Vehicle for remote inspection and intervention has a minimal footprint when the treads are folded up and the manipulator arms are also folded. Publication number EP0197020 A1 Publication date Oct 8, 1986 Filing date Mar 7, 1986 Priority …
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1970-1 – CURV Mobile Linkage Manipulator. Originally developed for the Cable-controlled Undersea Remove Vehicle (CURV), it was adapted for potential use as a mobile nuclear manipulator as seen here. Later it was used in Bezjcy's lab at the Jet Propulstion Laboratories (JPL), along with the JPL/Ames Arm. The NEVADA/CURV system (Fig. 3) consists of …
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1960 – KOELSCH Mobile Manipulator The JPL KOELSCH Robot system (Fig. 2) contains two identical arms mounted on a common shoulder link supported by a vertical post. The post is fitted to a small tread platform. The common shoulder link can be rotated about and raised along the vertical axis of the post. …
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