Industrial Robot: Volume 27 Issue 3

A day in the life of Isaac

Demonstrates that present technologies are sufficient to produce a household robot for the elderly or disabled, that is able to undertake a wide range of domestic chores and…

The BarrettHand grasper – programmably flexible part handling and assembly

This paper details the design and operation of the BarrettHand BH8‐250, an intelligent, highly flexible eight‐axis gripper that reconfigures itself in real time to conform…

Precise piezoelectric prehension

Piezoelectric actuators are well established for use in expensive optical equipment. Within the last decade, relatively inexpensive piezoelectric actuators have become established…

“Soft” grasping using a dextrous hand

Manipulators in one form or another have been in existence for many hundreds of years with the design usually motivated by the task to be undertaken. Most often in robots this has…

Tool changer integration utilising fieldbus

Fieldbus has been used to control self drill drive screw (SDDS), spot clinching and self pierce riveting tools mounted to a single robot with a tool changer. This has reduced…

Application of suspension mechanisms for low powered robot tasks

Presents the manipulation methods of a low powered direct‐drive robot‐arm for heavy object manipulation using a suspension device. Considers manipulation of a suspended tool in…

A mobile robot for pressurizer inspection

The pressurizer is one of the critical components in a nuclear reactor, whose main function is to maintain the primary system pressure within specific boundaries. The pressurizer…

Innovative use of ceramics by maxon increased gearhead performance by 100 per cent

Robot gripper

UK holds chairman post for International Robot Federation

Free CD ROM demonstrates principles of safety

Automated insertion

Trend setting breakthrough for Neos Robotics

Bio-mimitics and bio-robotics a new philosophy in human-machine interaction

Traditional technology group independent again

Composite Design Technologies, Inc. and Cincinnati Machine partner to provide best in class fiber placement production methods for composites manufacturers

Robotic Workspace Technologies, Inc. and The Classic Companies team up to form strategic alliance

Accredited robotics NVQ courses available from ABB Flexible Automation

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Robotic sealant application replaces engine gaskets at Ford

Expert indexing equipment selected for Ford Transit suspension assembly

Remote Control Robotics

Experience leads to success

Vision and Action: The Control of Grasping

Micro grippers are small but fast

New modular slip-ring assembly can match your needs

Diary

New class of robot

Robot orders rocket to an all time high

New controller for up to three robots

IC package transfer

Comau Robotics UK parent company buy PICO Estil

Feeding cases

Grasping alternatives

World's most advanced robotic arm

Acquisition provides new line of paint robots available through Motoman Inc.

New era dawns with high power laser welding technology

Consolidation sweeps the fragmented global motion control market

Good old fashioned reliability wins the day

Metal coating painting application without masking

Sensory Robotics for the Handling of Limp Materials

Automated loading is very cost effective

New lateral alignment module

Siemens replacement pick and place vacuum nozzles introduced