George Devol

George Devol was an American inventor who designed and patented Unimate, the first programmable industrial robotic arm, using a magnetic-drum program memory to control a reusable mechanical arm rather than a single-purpose machine. Devol licensed the design to Joseph Engelberger, whose company Unimation put the first Unimate to work on a General Motors die-casting line in 1961. The National Inventors Hall of Fame credits his patent as the foundation of the modern robotics industry. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/