Decade of Robotics: Special Tenth Anniversary Issue of the Industrial Robot Magazine

ISBN-13: 9783540125457 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 166 str.

J. Mortimer; B. Rooks

Opis

HERE are two views about the story of King T Canute and the incoming tide. One version has it that he was stupid enough to think that he was such a powerful King that he could stop the tide coming in. The other version suggests that he was demonstrating to his stick-in-the-mud advisers that not even a King as powerful as himself could tum back the tide. Either version has obvious applications to a number ofBritish industrial enterprises. The simple fact is that there is no way the incoming tide of robots can be turned back. There are three options. Face it out and drown; retreat before it, that roughly equates to importing foreign made robots which means exporting employment; or make the most ofit, which entails investing in the rapidly developing robot industry and thereby creating wealth and employment at home. There is no doubt that the design and manufacturing talent is available. I only hope that the Captains of British Industry will take heed of the second version of the story of King Canute . .

Spis treści

The Industrial Robot: Past present and future.- The cocktail party that gave birth to the robot.- The household robot: 1993.- Robot experience.- Better things for a man to do than be a robot.- Man’s inhumanity to man: Now the robot takes man’s place.- The first robots: How they were justified.- Robot design.- Let the application choose the drive.- The Importance of configuration.- Robot motion control: The key to success.- It’s the language that decides how well the robot performs.- Simulation: Preventing some nasty snarl-ups.- Robots in action.- Spot welding: The classic case for the quality robot.- Arc welding: A difficult path for robots to tread.- Laser drilling: Standing on the threshold of technology.- The creeping technology of grinding and fettling.- Saving the operator from a sticky environment.- Machining cells put robots in their right place.- Putting robots in cells helps the work to flow.- Washing away those blues with flexible manufacturing.- No novice in surface coating.- Putting on the style.- Megassembly: The sleeping giant of robotics.- The rise of the mini.- Robot management.- Is robot technology safe?.- Don’t underestimate the need for training.- Time for a renaissance in education.- Latter-day Luddites do not need sledge hammers.- Trades unions: Recognising the need for new technology.- The impact of new technology on working people.- Robots on the fringe.- The silent world of the undersea robot.- Can the robot be the miner’s friend?.- Robots in space.- Japan’s robot industry: Where does the future lie?.- The future.- He who dares in technology, wins.- When it will be important not to lose anything.- The European market: Still looking good.- Are there really so many robots in Japan?.- Why the robot will replace the Japanese navvie.- Automan ’83: Your stand-by-stand guide.- Robots 7: The exhibitors’ list.- The world’s robot makers and suppliers.