Industrial Robot: Volume 26 Issue 4
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The international journal of robotics research and applicationCategory:
Mechanical and Materials EngineeringTable Of Contents
RTS makes its mark in European robot automation
Brian RooksRTS is a Finnish robot technology company that acquired the automation division of British company Thurnall in 1998 to form RTS Thurnall plc. The article discusses the…
The Honda humanoid robot: development and future perspective
Kazuo HiraiHonda revealed a humanoid robot with two legs and two arms in December of 1996. The robot walks not only forward and backward but also diagonally either to the right or…
High speed delivery and low cost from new ABB packaging robot
Brian RooksDescribes the latest robot, the IRB 340 FlexPicker, from ABB Flexible Automation that is designed for high speed picking and placing operations found in the food and…
Custom solutions for food‐robotics clients
Peter G. DaveyOutlines the special design requirements for robots working in the food industry
Robot applications in the Japanese food industry
Motohiro HamazawaDescribes general considerations for the design of robots for use in the food industry and gives application examples for food handling and bag packing. Also discusses…
Manipulator visual servoing and tracking of fish using a genetic algorithm
Mamoru Minami, Julien Agbanhan, Toshiyuki AsakuraThis paper presents the real‐time visual servoing of a manipulator and its tracking strategy of a fish, by employing a genetic algorithm (GA) and the unprocessed…
Robotics for meat processing – from research to commercialisation
R.G. Templer, H.R. Nicholls, T. NicolleOver the last five years we have successfully researched, designed, developed and commercialised the world’s first lamb and sheep dressing robots. Two have already been…
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0143-991xOnline date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen access:
hybridEditor:
- Dr Clive Loughlin