TY - JOUR AB - During the last few years Hawker Siddeley Dynamics Engineering have supplied many Versatran programmable manipulators with the image of the Versatran being primarily that of an industrial robot. It is intended in this paper to demonstrate how practical experience gained by Hawker Siddeley Dynamic Engineering indicates that there are very good reasons for supplying alternatives to a standard robot, for the 500P system of which most people will be familiar, Fig. 1a has in some cases too much capability and in other cases is inadequate. The market therefore has been rather limited for such a robot. VL - 1 IS - 3 SN - 0143-991X DO - 10.1108/eb004720 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb004720 AU - Birnie J.V. PY - 1974 Y1 - 1974/01/01 TI - Practical Implications of Programmable Manipulators T2 - Industrial Robot: An International Journal PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 122 EP - 128 Y2 - 2024/04/19 ER -