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

Abstract

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.