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| Company type | Public (as of 1983) |
|---|---|
| Genre | Industrial robots |
| Founded | January 1980 |
| Founder | Victor Scheinman Phillippe Villers Michael Cronin Arnold Reinhold Jake Dias Dan Nigro Gordon VanderBrug Donald L. Pieper Norman Wittels |
| Headquarters | , USA |
Automatix Inc., founded in January 1980, was the first company to market industrial robots with built-in machine vision.[1][2] Its founders were Victor Scheinman, inventor of the Stanford arm; Phillippe Villers, Michael Cronin, and Arnold Reinhold of Computervision; Jake Dias and Dan Nigro of Data General; Gordon VanderBrug, of NBS, Donald L. Pieper of General Electric and Norman Wittels of Clark University.