Industrial Robot: Volume 11 Issue 1
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The international journal of robotics research and applicationCategory:
Mechanical and Materials EngineeringTable Of Contents
Advanced technology can be profitable
Launched in a blaze of publicity over three years ago recent performance figures about Automatix show the claims were not misplaced. Brian Rooks has been looking at the…
Japan builds more intelligent robots
Japan's robot industry is engaged in a major shift in its production emphasis towards more sophisticated types of robots, according to the latest update of statistical…
3·D vision·guided welding robot system
Dean LaCoeOne ofthefirst 3D vision‐guided welding robots in production has gone to work in the tough environment of a Norfolk and Western railroad repair shop.
Adding robotics to the curriculum
It will soon be possible for almost anyone to sign up for a course in robotics. And, however rusty your mathematics or electronics knowledge is, you should acquire basic…
Guidelines to the selection of robots
A.E. OwenIt is often claimed that flexible automation is the key to the survival of the manufacturing industry. The most significant and emotive form that flexible automation can…
Assembly becomes more prominent
John Hartley reports how recent applications show that robots are being used increasingly for assembly.
Quality and advanced technology join forces
Coopers Filters have invested a quarter of a million pounds in a powder coating plant to improve the quality of its products. Brian Rooks has visited the plant and found…
Europe overtakes the USA
The British Robot Association has just released its annual robot statistics and has been able also to include some other European figures.
Automated arc welding cell for hospital beds
Based on its Daros PT600 robot Dainichi Sykes Robotics has built an automated arc‐welding cell for producing hospital beds.
Japanese robot languages
New languages designed to lead to off‐line programming of robots. John Hartley reports.
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0143-991xOnline date, start – end:
1973Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen access:
hybridEditor:
- Dr Clive Loughlin