Automatix
 Automatix Inc. founded in January 1980 was the first company to market industrial robots with built-in machine vision. Its founders were Victor Scheinman inventor of the Stanford arm; Phillippe Villers Michael Cronin and Arnold Reinhold of Computervision; Jake Dias and Dan Nigro of Data General; Gordon VanderBrug of NBS Donald L. Pieper of General Electric and Norman Wittels of Clark University.