Industrial Robot: Volume 24 Issue 3

Fresh start sought for British robotics

Jack Hollingum

Shows how two events one week apart earlier this year pointed the way for the UK to put itself in the vanguard of the next stage of intelligent robotics development. First came…

Manufacturing automation brings Hozelock productivity improvements and consistent quality

Brian Rooks

Hozelock is a major user of plastics in its garden equipment products, and since flotation in 1993, has spent £26 million on new facilities at its Aylesbury moulding plant and its…

Tending the plastics industry’s needs

Brian Rooks

Shows how a leading supplier of robots to the plastics industry, ATM Automation, has extended its Leicester factory to incorporate a new Automation Centre. It has also formed a…

HelpMate to ease hospital delivery and collection tasks, and assist with security

Anna Kochan

Obtains the impressions gained ‐ six months into a trial in a UK hospital setting ‐from using the HelpMate robot to transport materials between wards, labs and pharmacy. Shows how…

Moulding, automation, robots: a winning combination for Bose

Michael J. Haley

Shows how a manufacturer of component quality loudspeakers has introduced plastic injection moulding into its manufacturing competence profile and also automation through the use…

ROBODOC ‐ surgical robot success story

Joanne Pransky

Describes the history of Integrated Surgical Systems (ISS), the US company that created ROBODOC, a surgical robot system used to perform total human hip replacement surgery, and…

Biomechanical grippers: important elements of biomechanical robots

Jozef N. Marcincin, Juraj Smrcek

Presents both description and overview of the emerging field of biomechanical grippers and shows the prototype of biomechanical gripper called the Presov biomechanical robot…

Robotic applications in meal preparation assistance for older adults

K.G. Engelhardt, Donald H. Goughler

Claims that recent rapid advances in robotic‐related technology offer the potential for new strategies that can help older adults extend or enhance their self‐help capabilities…