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The worldwide robot population is expected to multiply at least ten times in the next decade as it moves into the service industries, in addition to its applications in manufacturing. Japan now leads the...
Outlines some of the problems of industrial automation and how researchers are tackling them at one centre, Cranfield Institute of Technology, with major support from SERC’s Industrial Robotics Initiative....
Discusses the basics of robotics technology and shows examples of the industrial capabilities of robots. Examines robotic parts, microcomputer controllers, robot control systems, and sensing systems.
Traces the history of robotics development from early mechanical toys built by the ancient Chinese to the wide array of industrial robots used in manufacturing today. Considers how perceptions of robots...
Shows a group of robots along a track assembling vehicle headlights (Metro, Montego etc), starting with body shell and reflector, adding bulb, adjuster screws, locating pegs to glazing at the final work...
Shows a Puma robot in use in garment manufacture, separating ply from a machine cut stack, picking up and orientating an irregular motif which is then fused to the cloth at another work station.
Looks at the part robots play in the 1970s and at what research into robot technology is likely to produce in the future, which in the 1990s can be seen from the perspective of that future. The emphasis is...
Shows a Puma robot assembling shoes from the identification of a last using a simple vision system that reads right and left as well as the size and model, through application of glue to the underside of the...
Shows a Puma robot in use in assembling shirt collars. The three plys that form the collar are selected from three stacks in the required order and sent on a conveyor to the work station. Separation method...
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