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Victor Scheinman, Inventor of Assembly Line Robot, Dies at 73

September 23, 2016

PETROLIA, CA—Victor Scheinman, the Stanford engineering professor whose electrically powered, computer-controlled robot would become the Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly (PUMA) robot, has died at age 73. MORE

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