Industrial Robot: Volume 28 Issue 1
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The international journal of robotics research and applicationTable of contents
AIBO – the No. 1 selling service robot
Joanne PranskySony’s AIBO entertainment robot has broken all records for the number of robots sold in the shortest time period. The AIBO is an autonomous home entertainment robot with…
Robots reach the home floor
Brian RooksDescribes the background and development of a battery powered domestic robot vacuum cleaner. Major problems that have been solved are having the ability to clean a whole room…
A mobile robot platform for assistance and entertainment
Rolf Dieter Schraft, Birgit Graf, Andreas Traub, Dirk JohnBased on the successful hardware and software architecture of Care‐O‐bot™, a new generation of mobile robots has recently been designed at Fraunhofer Institute of Manufacturing…
NASA’s Robonaut
Gay EngelbergerA robotics team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, under the direction of Dr Robert Ambrose, is developing a new breed of space robots called Robonaut. Robonaut…
The softly‐softly approach of robotic waterjet cutting
Brian RooksAn extremely high‐pressure jet of water is an efficient method of cutting soft materials, and combining the waterjet process with industrial robots is an economic alternative to…
Reactive behaviours and agent architecture for Sony legged robots to play football
Huosheng Hu, Dongbing GuIt has been an ultimate long‐term dream in robotics and AI fields to build robotic systems with life‐like appearance, behaviours and intelligence, reflected by many science…
A compliance device for flexible close tolerance assembly
N.F. Edmondson, A.H. RedfordA compliance device combining passive and active compliance has been tested and developed for an anthropomorphic robot for use during assembly operations. The device has the…
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0143-991xOnline date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Dr Dimitrios Chrysostomou