William T. Townsend

William T. "Bill" Townsend
Alma materMIT, Northeastern
OccupationsCEO, Barrett Technology

Bill Townsend founded Barrett Technology in 1988. He is credited with introducing the WAM® arm, the first haptic robot and one of the first haptic devices based on novel differential and high-speed cable drives.

Bill obtained his MS and PhD degrees in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984 and 1988 respectively.[1][2] He received a BS in 1982 from Northeastern University. He has been awarded nineteen US patents with non-US equivalents and won several professional awards including The Robotics Industries Association’s Joseph Engelberger Award in 2003 for pioneering the first haptic robot in the 1980s.[3]

References

  1. ^ Townsend, William T (April 1988). "The effect of transmission design on force-controlled manipulator performance : Technical Report 1054" (PDF). MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-07-06. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
  2. ^ Townsend, William T. (1988). The effect of transmission design on force-controlled manipulator performance (PhD thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/14366.
  3. ^ "Joseph F. Engelberger Robotics Awards : Past Recipients By Year" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-06-28.
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