History: General Electric engineer Ralph Mosher using a robotic exoskeleton, known as Handyman, which was developed to handle delicate materials. Mosher described it in a technical paper as a "two-armed master-slave manipulator used to handle radioactive equipment." 1958 [1024x819]

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