News tagged with industrial robot

The robot revolution is just beginning

When industrial robots were first introduced in the early 1960s — initially on automobile assembly lines — computers were still in their infancy, so the robots were designed to perform only the most ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Taiwan's Hon Hai looks to robot industry

The parent company of Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn plans to mass produce industrial robots as part of its efforts to cope with labour shortages and rising wages.

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

High-precision robots available in kit form

(PhysOrg.com) -- A doctoral student from EPFL's Laboratory of Robotics Systems has developed a concept for modular industrial robots, based on the technology of parallel robots, whose precision is expressed ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Controlling robotic arms is child's play

Move your arm and the robot imitates your movement. This type of intuitive handling is now possible thanks to a new input device that will simplify the control of industrial robots in the future. But that ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japan mulls new robot help with nuclear disaster

Japan may be at the forefront of robotics and its children raised on cartoons of robot heroes and villains, but the country has so far had to rely on US-made machines for help tackling its nuclear crisis.

Electronics / Robotics

created May 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

'Good-bye, blind spot' -- man and machine always in view

Particular care must be taken in a production hall where robots and men work together, where even minor carelessness could result in serious accidents or stop production. At the Hannover Messe trade fair that ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Oil and gas exploration benefit from space technology

(PhysOrg.com) -- A special kind of titanium and a manufacturing technique used to build the Ariane 5 rocket could become the next successful spin-offs from Europe's space programme, benefiting the oil and gas industry.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Roadmap for robot helpers

The humble robot cleaning your floor heralds a wave of robot helpers, from miners to surgeons, that could be joining us in the coming decades. How should the industry prepare for these new markets?

Electronics / Robotics

created Aug 05, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Robots speed up path to discovery

The work force at Lake Nona's Sanford-Burnham Institute includes 90 scientific staffers, 60 administrators and support personnel -- and a team of three robots. The trio is part of a $15 million investment from the National ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Jul 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Robots get an artificial skin

Robots are breaking barriers: Long banished behind steel barriers, they are entering new fields of application such as the manufacturing, household and healthcare sectors. The requisite safety can be provided ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Japanese robo-suit promises superpowers for greying farmers

While Robocop and Iron Man can dodge bullets and crush villains, a new powered suit from Japan promises its elderly users more modest powers, such as pulling up radishes without getting a backache.

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 09, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 9

Robot to take starring roles in S.Korea plays

A South Korean-developed robot that played to acclaim in "Robot Princess and the Seven Dwarfs" is set for more leading theatre roles this year, a scientist said Wednesday.

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 10, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2

Living Safely with Robots, Beyond Asimov's Laws

(PhysOrg.com) -- "In 1981, a 37-year-old factory worker named Kenji Urada entered a restricted safety zone at a Kawasaki manufacturing plant to perform some maintenance on a robot. In his haste, he failed ...

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created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (85) | comments 40 feature

Greying Japan plans robo-nurses in five years: govt

Japan plans to prepare safety rules soon for robot nurses, which are expected to serve humans within five years in the fast-greying society, a government official said Wednesday.

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0


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