Industry Robots

The industrial robot is a tool that is used in the manufacturing environment to increase productivity. Robots are used to do routine and tedious assembly line jobs, or hazardous jobs to the human in a variety of manufacturing tasks, such as welding, assembly and spray painting, and replacing the nuclear fuel rods in nuclear power plants etc.


Seiko Instruments Factory Automation

This site has various precision robot applications in the industry, including SCARA robots, Cartesian robots, and Cylindrical robots. SCARA stands for selective compliance assembly robot arm and it is special type of robot arm.

Arrick Robotics

This site provides PC-based motion control systems, resources for robot builders, and links of user's own robots. The Trilobot mobile robot, a product of Arrick Robotics company, is used for research in artificial intelligence, artificial life, autonomous navigation, robotics technology, education, security, telepresence, and robot competitions.

Indramat Division of Rexroth

This site provides information about precision machine and motion controls, linear motors, vector drives, servo drives for industrial automation.

Real World Interface

This site includes intelligent research mobile robots, the B21, the B14, the ATRV-2, the Pioneer 1 and the Pioneer AT, and commercial robots for the industry and for entertainment.

RoBoProbe Technologies

This site provides robot products designed for sewer/pipe, nuclear, dry inspection needs.

CRS Robotics

CRS Robotics produces robots are used to automate a wide range of processes on the factory floor. This site provides some standard robot systems for factory automation. Robots are capable of a variety of tasking, such as dispensing, inspection, material handling, packaging, palletizing, quality control, machine loading, spraying, assembly and product testing.

                                               
Marty Trevino
martre@gslis.utexas.edu
Date Last Modified: 8/12/98