Industrial Robot: Volume 35 Issue 6

Swarm intelligence and robotics

The aim of this paper is to provide a review of recent developments in the application of swarm intelligence to robotics.

Artificial intelligence and robotic hand‐eye coordination

This paper's aim is to assess the practical advances resulting from progress in artificial intelligence affecting vision‐equipped robots.

Toyota's violin‐playing robot

The paper aims to report on Toyota's violin‐playing robot and Toyota's strategy for its “partner robot” business for the future.

Brain‐controlled robot agent: an EEG‐based eRobot agent

This paper aims to present a novel embedded‐internet robot system based on an internet robot agent and the brain‐computer interface (BCI) scheme.

Mobile robotic system for detection and location of antipersonnel land mines: field tests

The purpose of this paper is to present the results obtained in the field tests of a new system for detection and location of antipersonnel land mines.

A dialogue manager for multimodal human‐robot interaction and learning of a humanoid robot

This paper aims to give an overview of a dialogue manager and recent experiments with multimodal human‐robot dialogues.

Wafer prealigning robot based on shape center calculation

The aim of this paper is to provide a new wafer prealigning robot for the photo‐etching facility during the manufacturing of IC products.

A study on co‐operative motion planning of a dual manipulator system for measuring radioactivity

The aim of this paper is to describe how to make a co‐operative motion plan for a dual manipulator system to measure the radioactivity of wastes produced in decommissioning a…

Cooperation of robotic manipulators using non‐model‐based multiple impedance control

The aim of this paper is to present the non‐model‐based multiple impedance control (NMIC) law for object manipulation tasks, which can be implemented with reasonable limited…

Robot‐based surface finishing by means of a new slip sensor

Autonomous robot‐based finishing of surfaces with a reduction of the programming effort can be achieved by teaching the desired trajectory locally in the object reference frame…

Calibration and planning techniques for mobile robots in industrial environments

This paper aims to provide a simple and cheap calibration method to improve the odometry accuracy and to present an alternative method for the control of the path produced by an…

Compact robot set to find uses in manufacturing, electronics and laboratory industries

New CamProTM software translates CAM tool paths for routing robots

Diary

Robot industry mourns the loss of industry visionary

Centre of Excellence for Food Robotics and Automation

The pioneering spirit

Adept Technology, Inc. reports second quarter fiscal 2008 results

NASA awards contract for space shuttle robotics support

Robot compliments skills issue at audience systems and drives up component quality

Adept technology announces new inverted SCARA robot for packaged goods market

Patent abstracts

Statistics for the robotics industry in JapanJapan Robot Association (JARA)

EU robotics spending “doubles”

Progress in machine intelligence

Fiscal 2008 outlook

Web sites

RTS puts cost-saving robotics “in the bag”

Bionic jellyfish demonstrate swarming behaviour

The 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge – The Great Robot Race