Tag: Harvey Chapman Jr.

Selective Timeline 1942 Robert Heinlein – Waldo 1943 – Deaton Puppet Animating Harness Patent 1948 GE Master-Slave Manipulator – John Payne 1948 Ray Goertz Master-Slave Manipulator 1953 Harvey Chapman – Garco 1954 Ray Goertz Electric Servo-Manipulator 1956 GE Yes Man – Exoskeleton Manipulator 1963 Science & Mechanics – "Waldo" as master-slave manipulators 1963 Rogers et …

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GARCO represents one of the first attempts at an all-purpose functional humanoid robot. Although he had most of his success as an entertainment robot, the inventor, Harvey Chapman Jr., believed he had other uses, such as "taking on a variety of tasks that would prove too dangerous for humans. Mixing the ingredients for TNT is one. …

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