Industrial Robot: Volume 38 Issue 6

Robots for monitoring the environment

This paper aims to provide a review of the role of robots for monitoring the environment.

Mobile hospital robots cure numerous logistic needs

The purpose of this paper is to show how mobile robots are addressing a variety of hospital logistic needs.

Robots at FOOMA Japan: a food machinery and technology exhibition

The purpose of this paper is to review new robots and applications in the food‐related industry through the exhibits at the Food Machinery and Technology Exhibition, Japan.

Low‐cost and automated calibration method for joint offset of industrial robot using single‐point constraint

The industrial robot has high repeatability but low accuracy. With the industrial robot being widely used in complicated tasks, e.g. arc welding, offline programming and surgery…

Expert system to interpret hand tremor and provide joystick position signals for powered wheelchairs with ultrasonic sensor systems

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how to make powered‐wheelchair driving easier using simple expert systems to interpret joystick and ultrasonic sensor data. The expert…

Prototypes selection by multi‐objective optimal design: application to a reconfigurable robot in sandy terrain

Wheel‐terrain interaction has hardly been taken into consideration in the process of conventional mobile robot design, but its importance has been reflected increasingly towards…

Modeling and analysis of robotic wheel loading process in trim‐and‐final assembly

Moving production lines are widely used in many manufacturing factories, such as automotive and general industries. However, industrial robots are hardly used to perform any tasks…

Robotic manufacturing by shaped metal deposition: state of the art

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of shaped metal deposition (SMD). SMD is an additive manufacturing process which uses a robotic cell to create fully dense…

Focus on efficiency: bird flight deciphered

Why Software Could Hold the Key to Tea and Coffee Breaks of the Future

Patents abstracts

Diary

New robotic loading system allows flexibility for shelf ready packaging lines

Smart living and robotics: challenges and future directions

Robot Orders Surge 31 per cent in First Quarter of 2011

Web sites

Robot Vision

Epson launches sales of new line of SCARA robots for industry