Stanford arm
Six-axis electric robot arm built at Stanford in 1969; an early platform for AI-controlled manipulation research.
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MIT Arm: Six-Axis Robotic Manipulator by Victor Scheinman
In 1973, Victor Scheinman at MIT completed the MIT Arm, a six-degree-of-freedom all-revolute robotic manipulator with DARPA funding. Its wrist-intersecting joint geometry simplified kinematic analysis and influenced the design of research and surgical robot arms for decades.
Stanford Arm Developed by Victor Scheinman at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
In 1969, Victor Scheinman, a mechanical engineering student at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL), designed the Stanford Arm, an all-electric six-degree-of-freedom robotic manipulator whose kinematic configuration made it well-suited to computer control and geometric path planning.