Industrial Robot: Volume 35 Issue 4

Prosthetic hands from Touch Bionics

Christine Connolly

The purpose of this paper is to study the innovative design of prosthetic hands now in production from a Scottish spin‐off company.

The development of medical microrobots: a review of progress

Robert Bogue

The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of recent progress in the development of medical microrobots.

Robots at the International Robot Exhibition 2007 in Tokyo

Yoshihiro Kusuda

The purpose of this paper is to review the iREX2007, the International Robot Exhibition 2007 held in Tokyo, Japan, with emphasis on new trends in the Japanese robot industry.

Robot innovations highlight numerous recent shows in Chicago

Richard Bloss

The purpose of this paper is to review the robots at the 2007 ATExpo Show and related Electronics Assembly Show, Quality, PlasTec and National Manufacturing Week Shows, as well as…

MIROB: automatic rapid identification of micro‐organisms in high through‐put

Oliver Lange, Marcel Erhard, Christian Teutsch, Joerg Sander

The purpose of this paper is to present a novel microbiological lab robot that facilitates high through‐put sample preparation for rapid state‐of‐the‐art identification.

A medical robot kinematics design approach based on knowledge management

Natalie Smith‐Guerin, Laurence Nouaille, Pierre Vieyres, Gerard Poisson

The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology for medical robot kinematics design developed using a knowledge‐management approach.

The DLR MIRO: a versatile lightweight robot for surgical applications

U. Hagn, M. Nickl, S. Jörg, G. Passig, T. Bahls, A. Nothhelfer, F. Hacker, L. Le‐Tien, A. Albu‐Schäffer, R. Konietschke, M. Grebenstein, R. Warpup, R. Haslinger, M. Frommberger, G. Hirzinger

Surgical robotics can be divided into two groups: specialized and versatile systems. Versatile systems can be used in different surgical applications, control architectures and…

Teleoperated 3‐DOF micromanipulation system with force feedback capability: design and experiments

Adha Imam Cahyadi, Yoshio Yamamoto

The purpose of this paper is to present a design and verification through experiments of teleoperation of the 3 degrees‐of‐freedom micromanipulation system (MMS), in laboratory…

Co‐operative minimally invasive robotic surgery

Rinaldo Michelini, Roberto Razzoli

The purpose of this paper is to consider surgical robotics, with a focus on technology and design issues for remote‐mode operation assistance. The investigation leads to the…

Optimisation of prehension force through tactile sensing

Somrak Petchartee, Gareth Monkman

The purpose of this paper is to analyze surface deformations caused by shear and moment forces on tactile materials and present a method to detect and reduce the risk of slippage…

Japanese robotic market in 2006 and forecast for 2010

Medical robotics: where we come from, where we are and where we could go

Jocelyne Troccaz

Medical robots

AA Robotics checks boxes for Boehringer

Multi-axis robotic positioning machine promises major improvements to carbon fibre manufacturing process

Book review

Automated screwdriving now more accessible with Weber LCM4

Patent abstracts

Diary

North American robot orders jump 24 per cent in 2007

Richard Litt of Genesis Systems Group leads RIA in 2008 as President

Master and commander

Clive Loughlin

TM Robotics and PCS Industries share a vision

Robots boost cheese productivity

Motion Drives and Controls add Quicksilver Controls range of closed loop microstepping motors and intelligent drives

US Medical Robotics and Computer-Assisted Surgery to exceed US$2.0 billion by 2010