Industrial Robot: Volume 34 Issue 6

Robot welding of hatch coamings for large container ships

The purpose of the paper is to describe the changes that were needed in an existing offline programming system (OLP) in order to produce heavy steel weldments.

TIP TIG: new technology for welding

The paper aims to report on a new welding technology, TIP TIG.

Research on weld pool control of welding robot with computer vision

The control of weld penetration in gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) is required for a “teach and playback” robot to overcome the gap variation in the welding process. This paper…

Using digital pens to program welding tasks

Interaction with robot systems for the specification of manufacturing tasks needs to be simple since the paper targets the widespread use of robots in small and medium enterprises…

Application of an active pneumatic actuator to robotic deburring

The paper aims to develop a robotic deburring method based on a new active pneumatic tool.

Design of a climbing robot for inspecting aircraft wings and fuselage

The paper aims to develop a robot that climbs on non‐ferrous surfaces, e.g. aircraft wings and fuselages, carrying a heavy payload up to 18 kg including scanning arm and various…

CiceRobot: a cognitive robot for interactive museum tours

The aim of this paper is to integrate perception, action and symbolic knowledge to allow an autonomous robot to operate in unstructured environments and to interact with…

A precise method for correcting stereo pairs collected by a new binocular device

The paper seeks to develop a stereo vision system based on a new binocular device. It aims to present an explicit‐implicit correction method to correct radial and tangential…

ACAL PJT launches low-cost SCARA Robots for automated assembly

Foster-Miller acquisition of Automatika and Applied Perception completed

NASA expands order for Innova Robotics and Automation's Universal Robot Controller

Viewpoint

KUKA Robotics to supply robotics for automatic guided vehicle systems

IR CLAWAR Association News Item 3 August 2007

Web sites

Aerospace grade automated drilling robots

RTS achieves the ultimate challenge for robotic pick and place

Advanced Man-Machine Interaction - Fundamentals and Implementation

ELAU appoints Barr & Paatz as first robot solutions integrator

KUKA Robotics introduces world's largest and strongest robot

Katana – Robot stars at the Hanover Fair

Diary

Patent abstracts

RIA - Donald Vincent retires

Carnegie Mellon researchers help explore world's deepest sinkhole; NASA-funded robotic sub will look for bottom of Mexico's El Zacatón

Divide and conquer

ICx teams with iRobot to secure $16.58 million contract with Department of Defense Joint Ground Robotics Enterprise (JGRE) to provide mobile explosives detectors

Evolution Robotics reaches two million product milestone

ELTA's R3G repeats GPS/ GLONASS/GALILEO signals

"Bottle-neck" solution pays back in 12 months

Alio's tripod and hexapod micro positioners are precisely aimed at nano positioning applications