Divergent trends in robotic assembly in the UK and Japan
Joseph Tidd
(Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, UK)
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Abstract
OVER the past twenty years, industrial robots have become increasingly task‐specific, moving away from the original concept of ‘steel collar’ worker, or ‘universal automation’. In terms of tasks or applications, robots can be divided into three broad groups, which also approximate to their chronological development:
Citation
Tidd, J. (1988), "Divergent trends in robotic assembly in the UK and Japan", Assembly Automation, Vol. 8 No. 4, pp. 211-212. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb004247
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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