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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...
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...
Investigates the natural engineering solutions developed by creatures in the world of nature to deal with problems caused by their environments and at ways man copies nature’s technology. By observing...
Looks at the first stages of a child’s ability to handle and manipulate objects, comparing the stages of progress to that made by robots. Explains the developmental framework behind the child’s ability...
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...
Emphasises the urgency and importance of vision systems to industry and the military. Indicates how an examination of the modalities and psychophysics of human vision can lead to real advances in machine...
Brian is a young research physicist in the electronics industry who is interested in voice synthesis and robotics. He lives with a pet robot who fetches, carries and talks to him. One day a role reversal...
Deals with the computer language LOGO, a ‘language designed for learning’, and its application to the Turtle, a computer-controlled robot which moves about on the floor or is simulated on the computer...
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....
Robots in industry are often thought of as a substitute for men, rather than as a valuable aid to them. Stresses the point that robots are content to work in surroundings that men are increasingly unwilling...
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