1965

The pneumatic Orm arm

United States · Robotics

In 1965 at Stanford, Victor Scheinman and Larry Leifer built the air-powered Orm arm (Norwegian for snake): it moved by inflating 28 bladders between seven metal discs. It is one of the first attempts at an arm controlled directly by a computer, but it was abandoned because its movements were imprecise. [1][2][3]

Sources

1. Computer History Museum: The Orm (CHM Revolution)
2. Open Continuum Robotics: The First Continuum Robot
3. ETHW: Oral-History: Victor Scheinman

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