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The Yaskawa Electric Corporation (株式会社安川電機, Kabushiki-gaisha Yasukawa Denki) is a Japanese manufacturer of servos, motion controllers, AC motor drives, switches and industrial robots. Their Motoman robots are heavy duty industrial robots used in welding, packaging, assembly, coating, cutting, material handling and general ...
A field-replaceable unit (FRU) [1] is a printed circuit board, part, or assembly that can be quickly and easily removed from a computer or other piece of electronic equipment, and replaced by the user or a technician without having to send the entire product or system to a repair facility.
Unimate 500 PUMA (1983), control unit and computer terminal at Deutsches Museum, Munich PUMA arm at NASA. The PUMA (Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly, or Programmable Universal Manipulation Arm) is an industrial robotic arm developed by Victor Scheinman at pioneering robot company Unimation.
The acronym stands for selective compliance assembly robot arm [1] or selective compliance articulated robot arm. [ 2 ] By virtue of the SCARA's parallel-axis joint layout, the arm is slightly compliant in the X-Y direction but rigid in the Z direction, hence the term selective compliance .
Conceivable commercial applications of robots include any type of activity that a robot could do in the domestic or industrial field. Researchers across Japan have unveiled increasingly sophisticated robots with different functions, including a talking office receptionist, a security guard and even a primary school teacher.
Bill McCartney, the Hall of Fame college football coach who won a national championship with Colorado in 1990, died Friday night in Boulder, Colorado.
On Sept. 1, Costco hiked the price of its Gold Star membership by $5 to $65 and the price of its Executive membership by $10 to $130. This was the first full quarter since the price hike.
Andy Flessas (aka andyRobot [1]) is an American robotics designer and computer animator, and proprietor of the company andyRobot. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He invented RoboScreen, a robotically controlled video display, [ 4 ] and is the author of RobotAnimator software.