Industrial Robot: Volume 32 Issue 6

UK robotic installations statistics for 2004

Aims to collate and analyse data relating to the sales and installations of industrial robots in the UK for the preceding year and, by comparison with data from previous years…

Scalpel please, robot: Penelope's debut in the operating room

Aims to demonstrate how robot technology, machine vision, voice recognition and artificial intelligence can be applied to creating an automated surgeon's assistant that is…

Robots will be of service with muscles, not motors

Aims to project how electroactive polymer will replace conventional electromagnetic motor driven solutions for service and industrial robots.

Vision enabled robotics

Examines a recently launched integration of smart cameras into industrial robots to make them responsive to a changing environment.

Japanese prototype service robot R&D trends and examples

Offers a broad overview on Japanese prototype service robot R&D trends and examples.

Ford welds a winner

To report on the design and development of a robotic automobile aluminium frame welding system.

Automation in the sky

Aims to summarise the programme of UV Europe, a conference on unmanned vehicles that took place in Paris in June 2005.

Japanese robotics – where to go?

Aims to make an appeal to Japanese robotic community in an attempt to keep global competitivity for the future.

Weighted path planning based on collision detection

Aims to make an industrial robot work human‐friendly while coexisting with humans in a same working space, without any modification of the manipulator hardware as well as its…

Flexible full‐body tactile sensor of low cost and minimal output connections for service robot

This paper aims to design a new full‐body tactile sensor which is essential for the application of personal service robot similar to human skin.

SOHO security with mini self‐balancing robots

To present the design and control of a low cost, two‐wheeled, self‐balancing robot for detecting and reporting fire and intruders in a small home/office setting.

The impact of spoken interfaces on the design of service robots

Service robots need to be programmable by their users who are in general unskilled in the art of robot programming. We have explored the use of spoken language for programming…

Robot‐by‐voice: experiments on commanding an industrial robot using the human voice

This paper reports a few results of an ongoing research project that aims to explore ways to command an industrial robot using the human voice. This feature can be interesting…

Advances in Human‐Robot Interaction

KMT Cutting Systems wins first waterjet cutting order in Australia

The what and when of service robotics

Applied perception begins project to investigate soldier-personal robot system based on the Segway platform

RIA launches free robotic resources

Web sites

Hot robot

Kawasaki launch the FS03, a compact and high-speed robot …

Robots drive return to local manufacturing

Diary

ABB wins massive order for multi-robot, multi-axis, arc welding systems and controllers

First armwrestling match between an EAP actuated robotic arm and a human

Running out of excuses

Innova Holdings, Inc. forms new subsidiary Service Robots Inc.

New TV technology maps surroundings in 3D

Robot files CD-ROM

Robot automates prescription lens production, cutting labour costs

Güdel launches RoboBeam presswork parts handling system

Patent abstracts

Robosuit™ coated with Dupont Dow Hypalon® protects vital industrial robots