Industrial Robot: Volume 20 Issue 4

Advanced Robotics in the Food Industry

Peter Wallin

Robotics in the Food Industry ‐ The food industry generally operates at low margins, is conservative and has to respond quickly to consumer and retailer demands. These…

A Virtual Reality and Simulation Initiative

Gunter Wittenberg

Advanced Robotics Research Ltd (ARRL) launched their Virtual Reality and Simulation Initiative at the National Advanced Robotics Research Centre, Salford, on Friday, 2 July 1993…

An Alternative Approach to Off‐line Programming

Martin Kortus, Tim Ward, M.H. Wu

First results of a research project at Bolton Institute show advantages in using a text‐based off‐line programmer in conjunction with a low‐cost PC‐based kinematic simulator. The…

Virtual Reality in Engineering

Gunter Wittenberg

A group of users, academics and suppliers of virtual reality systems and equipment — about 35 people — got together on Monday and Tuesday 6 and 7 September 1993 at the University…

Detroit: Contracting for Quality

Michael E. Marotta

The American automotive industry is a pyramid of responsibility. The manufacturers do just one thing: they build vehicles. The tools of automation which make this possible are…

Using Simulation to Evaluate Robot Programming Decision Making

Paul A. James, Rick Guptill

Instructing a robot to perform a task is rarely a simple process, even if the task is straightforward by human standards. One reason for this is that the sub‐task flow into which…

Recent Japanese Progress in Construction Robotics

Robert D. Wing

At a recent meeting of the British Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (BAARC), representatives of four of Japan's largest construction companies were invited…