page_title: Victor Scheinman
hierarchical_section_title: Victor Scheinman
caption_attribution_description: English: w:Victor Scheinman at the w:MIT Museum. The robot in the display case is a PUMA robot, which was developed by Scheinman. An experimental hand developed by Ken Salisbury is attached to the arm.
context_page_description: Victor David Scheinman was an American pioneer in the field of robotics.
  He was born in Augusta, Georgia, where his father Leonard was stationed with the US Army. At the end of the war the family moved to Brooklyn and his father returned to work as a professor of psychiatry. His mother taught at a Hebrew school.
  Scheinman first experience with robots was watching The Day the Earth Stood Still around age 8 or 9. The movie frightened him and his father suggested building a wooden model as therapy. As a child and teenager Scheinman designed and constructed a voice-controlled typewriter; this Science Fair project both gave him entry into MIT as an undergraduate in engineering as well as providing a foundation for his later inventions. He was a graduate of the now-defunct New Lincoln High School in New York. In the late 1950s, and while in high school, Scheinman engineered a speech-to-text machine as a science fair project.
context_section_description: Victor David Scheinman (December 28, 1942 – September 20, 2016) was an American pioneer in the field of robotics.
  He was born in Augusta, Georgia, where his father Leonard was stationed with the US Army. At the end of the war the family moved to Brooklyn and his father returned to work as a professor of psychiatry. His mother taught at a Hebrew school. 
  Scheinman first experience with robots was watching The Day the Earth Stood Still around age 8 or 9. The movie frightened him and his father suggested building a wooden model as therapy. As a child and teenager Scheinman designed and constructed a voice-controlled typewriter; this Science Fair project both gave him entry into MIT as an undergraduate in engineering as well as providing a foundation for his later inventions. He was a graduate of the now-defunct New Lincoln High School in New York. In the late 1950s, and while in high school, Scheinman engineered a speech-to-text machine as a science fair project.
caption: Victor Scheinman at the MIT Museum with a PUMA robot in 2014
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