Talk:Unimate

work needed
I have closed the merge discussion as it has been there for tow years - see Talk:George Devol

this article is now the main article and so the maaterial must be mooved from the Devol page to here leaving a summary there

Chaosdruid (talk) 16:58, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

From Robot
I took this sentence out of Robot per WP:SYNTH: "It is worth noting that not a single patent was cited against his original robotics patent ." However, that seems interesting, and if someone can find a source that talks about how significant this is in regard to patents in general, or in regard to this patent, it might be a nice addition, probably for this article rather than Robot. - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 03:07, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 1 one external link on Unimate. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20120102235048/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKo6KMkuVAk&gl=US&hl=en to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKo6KMkuVAk

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Norman Heroux
Please see the talk page of Industrial Robot. Unfortunately I didn't log in enough and my notifications expired. Consequently I did not see the addition of Norman Heroux as being the inventor of the Unimate robot. I have searched the internet and his obituaries and I see he was a field service engineer at Unimation. George Devol holds (held) the patent so George Devol invented the industrial robot. Devol employed engineers and Heroux was no doubt one of them. Maybe Heroux *designed* the Unimate while working for Unimation and George Devol. That does not make him the inventor. The only references I can find to that connection are extremely vague, for example one link is 404, one link ends up with "pecfest15 Girl is gone rap in battle"; next goes to iq option trading; wikiomni is a page of code and pictograms; next goes to binomo trading; next is a link to hitchhikers guide to the galaxy but it's some German spoof and heroux was only added in August and what's more all the content is "redirected from Wikipedia". Many other links such as wordaz simply refer back to wikipedia. It looks to me like a deliberate attempt to get google coverage to bring people from Wikipedia to these various trading sites. There is certainly evidence that Heroux worked for Unimation and the Bridgeport news mentions he gave a talk in 1972 but that is only genuine article and it does not mention inventor. Therefore I intend to delete all references to Norman Heroux and if anyone has any genuine evidence please discuss it with me. Robotics1 (talk) 14:05, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Norman Heroux appears to be a fraudulent entry and I am removing it now. Robotics1 (talk) 19:25, 7 October 2016 (UTC)