Industrial Robot: Volume 37 Issue 4

Microrobots and nanorobots: a review of recent developments

The paper aims to provide a technical review of recent developments in microrobots, together with a less detailed consideration of nanorobotics.

A control method of deceleration assistance system for collision avoidance based on driver's perceptual risk

The purpose of this paper is to realize a smooth and secure brake assistance system to avoid rear‐end collision of automobiles.

Design and control of an upper limb rehabilitation support device for disabled people using a pneumatic cylinder

The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of a device to support rehabilitation of a patient's upper limb motion.

Two‐step active contour method based on gradient flow

Active contour can describe target's silhouette accurately and has been widely used in image segmentation and target tracking. Its main drawback is huge computation that is still…

Multi‐robot team formation control in the GUARDIANS project

The Group of Unmanned Assistant Robots Deployed in Aggregative Navigation by Scent (GUARDIANS) multi‐robot team is to be deployed in a large warehouse in smoke. The team is to…

Real‐time motion planning for mobile robots by means of artificial potential field method in unknown environment

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the local minima issue encountered in motion planning by the artificial potential field (APF) method, investigate the currently existing…

Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-robot Relationships

Small robot for sterile environments

Patent abstracts

Diary

News

Plenty of room at the bottom

Camera/robot increases quality, reduces initial cost 40 per cent and retool cost 80 per cent

ABB introduces articulated robot, linear gantry combination

What really matters for biomedical robotics

Web sites

Plastics robots get packing at Timloc