Industrial Robot: Volume 26 Issue 4

RTS makes its mark in European robot automation

RTS 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 background…

The Honda humanoid robot: development and future perspective

Honda 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 left and…

High speed delivery and low cost from new ABB packaging robot

Describes 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 beverage…

Custom solutions for food‐robotics clients

Outlines the special design requirements for robots working in the food industry

Robot applications in the Japanese food industry

Describes 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 gripper…

Manipulator visual servoing and tracking of fish using a genetic algorithm

This 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 gray‐scale image…

Robotics for meat processing – from research to commercialisation

Over 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 sold to…

New pneumatic robotic grippers

Greenhouse robots under development

Conferences and Exhibitions

Tube-shaped gripper for fragile components

Italian robot manufacturer wins Volvo order worth 18 million pounds

Affordable head pointing device for computer access

MACA - Meat Automation Concerted Action

Mother never did it this way

Harvard University gives robotic WAM arm the 'human-touch'

Welcome to the Industrial Robot Internet Research Register

Robotic surgery

Global growth impacts UK market - new Integrated Solutions Division announced

Integrated solutions drive European variable speeds drives market

Robot first for palletising beef in an abattoir

New welding cell for quality, repeatability and enhanced production

Intelligent Robotics

Palletizing in the Spanish food industry

HBM launch speed and torque measuring flange

Milking the benefits of automation: dairy supplies get the high-tech treatment with robotic order picking system

PW group continues export drive

Compact robot suits high-speed welding applications where space is at a premium

Motoman expands its headquarters facility in West Carrollton, Ohio

New Fisnar robots - TMB100 series offers high performance at low cost

GM selects Deneb Robotics for digital manufacturing

Fuzzy future for robotics?

Cognex Corporation enters into OEM agreement with ABB Robotics

Robots come out of the factories and into the fields

Adept Technology offers complete robot system for under $25,000 in first time buyer promotion

Internet page

Three additional welding cells ordered by Crown Equipment

Motoman introduces modular, pre-engineered PackWorld : new standard for robotic packaging of consumer products

Advanced Robotics: Redundancy and Optimization

Jones and Shipman now offering high-speed adaptive control for grinding

Advanced Control System Technology

Welding robots: simulation saves time and money

'Totally reliable' lights-out operation from two ATM de-mould robots and an integrated, down-stream palletiser