Industrial Robot: Volume 31 Issue 5

The red planet rovers

Robotic exploration of the planet Mars is the goal of two space missions launched in 2003. Their aim was to use robots and a host of instrumentation to take samples of soil and…

Robots provide 24/7 milking service for cows

Dutch company Insentec has developed a robotic solution for milking cows. Using a standard industrial robot and machine vision, Insentec's Galaxy product is a fully automated…

ABB’s MultiMove fires the imagination

ABB has launched a new robot controller, the fifth generation IRC5. One of its major features is MultiMove, a function that enables fully coordinated control of up to 36 axes…

The UK robot football championship

Robot football uses autonomous vehicles that respond to unpredictable events. It presents engineering challenges embracing a wide range of disciplines, and attracts and holds the…

Paris show features synchronous robots, laser welding robots and service robots

Reports from Industrie 2004 in Paris, the exhibition that took place alongside the International Symposium of Robotics (ISR), highlights the development of synchronous robot…

DARPA Grand Challenge – a pioneering event for autonomous robotic ground vehicles

For the time in its 45‐year history, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) reached beyond its standard defense contractors and out to the public, and in 2004 held…

Adhesive bonding of car body parts by industrial robot

With the trend towards lightweight body structures for automobiles, new joining technologies are evolving. This paper highlights the latest application – that of adhesive bonding…

Robots struggle at MACH

A review of the MACH machine tool exhibition held at the NEC, Birmingham, and specifically on the robotic exhibits. Although the number of stands demonstrating robots was down on…

SAFER under vehicle inspection through video mosaic building

The current threats to US security, both military and civilian, have led to an increased interest in the development of technologies to safeguard national facilities such as…

Griffon: a man‐portable hybrid UGV/UAV

To demonstrate proof‐of‐concept of the Griffon man‐portable hybrid unmanned ground vehicle/unmanned aerial vehicle (UGV/UAV) based on the iRobot PackBot we developed the Griffon…

On Advances in Robot Kinematics

Mobile Robots in Rough Terrain: Estimation, Motion Planning, and Control with Application to Planetary Rovers

Robot Manipulator Control: Theory and Practice 2/e

Robotic vehicle

Robotics pioneer receives IEEE award

Controlling device

Waterjet/routing manufacturer ABB I-R changes name to ABB KMT

Robotic platform

Spectator sports

ABB develops “Bluetooth” technology for robots that goes beyond that of the mobile phone

Smart dual channel, 240Amp DC motor controller with optical encoder input targets mobile robots

Robots have improved capacity

Miniature robotic vehicles

Major changes at Adept technology

Reconfigurable robot

Robotics trends and IDG World Expo announce RoboNexus

Call for papers

Internet reviews

New security robot doubles as facility operations' Wi-Fi robotic assistant

Wood working robot

Güdel launches heavy duty RoboFlex 6-axis workhandling system

New enabling switch device speeds set-up and trouble-shooting

Diary