Joseph Engelberger

Joseph F. Engel Berger ( born July 26, 1925 in New York City ) is an American engineer who is considered the father of robotics.

From 1942 to 1946 he served in the Navy and was involved in the nuclear weapons test in Bikini Atoll. He studied at Columbia University in 1946 and earned his bachelor's degree in physics in 1949 and his master's in electrical engineering. From 1946 to 1956 he worked at Manning Maxwell & Moore of control systems for nuclear power plants and jet engines and there rose to chief engineer in the aircraft development. In 1957 he founded the Consolidated Controls Corporation.

With George Devol he founded in 1961 in Danbury (Connecticut) the company Unimation Inc., where she developed the first industrial robot Unimate.

After they had sold 1982 Unimation at Westinghouse, he founded in 1984 in Danbury Transitions Research Corporation, from which Helpmate Robotics Inc., and its chairman, he was until 1999. He now lives in Newton, Connecticut.