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So many fascinating things in this report. One was that the robot arm was made by General Mills (today, mostly a parent brand of breakfast cereal companies).
by foobarbecue 3y ago
So many fascinating things in this report.
One was that the robot arm was made by General Mills (today, mostly a parent brand of breakfast cereal companies).
- projektfu 3y agoAt the time, baking products and breakfast cereals were also their main products. Quite a surprise to see them there. That said, they had a history of inventing new machines, like the extruders that make puffy breakfast cereal.
- SAI_Peregrinus 3y agoAnd the design & manufacturing capability to make the machines used for making breakfast cereals (the mills) in-house.
- dpierce9 3y agoGeneral Mills also built Alvin which launched in 1964 and is still in service. [0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSV_Alvin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSV_Alvin
- adolph 3y agoIt is kinda hard to find more information about the arm. The below site has some Trieste pictures [0] and how the same model of arm was used at Los Alamos [1] for working with radioactive material. 0. https://cyberneticzoo.com/underwater-robotics/1961-trieste-submersible-harold-froehlich-american/ https://cyberneticzoo.com/underwater-robotics/1961-trieste-s... 1. https://cyberneticzoo.com/teleoperators/1960-minotaur-remote-manipulator-general-mills-american/ https://cyberneticzoo.com/teleoperators/1960-minotaur-remote...
- JKCalhoun 3y agoI love the linked site, BTW. It is exhaustive (in a good way).
- runlevel1 3y agoThe conglomerate fad of the 60s led to some bizarre combinations. ITT Inc. for example had: - ITT Tech (a for-profit technical school that used to advertise relentlessly) - Wonder Bread & Twinkie - Avis Rent-A-Car - The Hartford insurance - Starwood Hotels - Sheraton Hotels They also made night vision goggles, HVAC systems, and phone switching equipment. At one point they also tried to buy ABC (the TV channel).