Industrial Robot: Volume 28 Issue 1

Strapline:

The international journal of robotics research and application
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Table of contents

AIBO – the No. 1 selling service robot

Joanne Pransky

Sony’s AIBO entertainment robot has broken all records for the number of robots sold in the shortest time period. The AIBO is an autonomous home entertainment robot with…

Robots reach the home floor

Brian Rooks

Describes the background and development of a battery powered domestic robot vacuum cleaner. Major problems that have been solved are having the ability to clean a whole room…

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A mobile robot platform for assistance and entertainment

Rolf Dieter Schraft, Birgit Graf, Andreas Traub, Dirk John

Based on the successful hardware and software architecture of Care‐O‐bot, a new generation of mobile robots has recently been designed at Fraunhofer Institute of Manufacturing…

NASA’s Robonaut

Gay Engelberger

A robotics team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, under the direction of Dr Robert Ambrose, is developing a new breed of space robots called Robonaut. Robonaut…

The softly‐softly approach of robotic waterjet cutting

Brian Rooks

An extremely high‐pressure jet of water is an efficient method of cutting soft materials, and combining the waterjet process with industrial robots is an economic alternative to…

Reactive behaviours and agent architecture for Sony legged robots to play football

Huosheng Hu, Dongbing Gu

It has been an ultimate long‐term dream in robotics and AI fields to build robotic systems with life‐like appearance, behaviours and intelligence, reflected by many science…

A compliance device for flexible close tolerance assembly

N.F. Edmondson, A.H. Redford

A compliance device combining passive and active compliance has been tested and developed for an anthropomorphic robot for use during assembly operations. The device has the…

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ISSN:

0143-991X

e-ISSN:

1758-5791

ISSN-L:

0143-991X

Online date, start – end:

1973

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Dr Dimitrios Chrysostomou