Talk:Industrial robot

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Only Content regarding industrial robots due to International Federation of Robotics and ISO definition (e.g. no service robotic, no automation systems, no mobile platforms), only articulated robots, cartesian, parallel, scara robots, flex picker. For other robotics content see robotics, robot, Autonomous_robot, Laboratory_robotics, Battlefield_robot, social robots or ludobot.

Jdietsch 10:06, 19 June 2006 (UTC) You say that there should be no mobile platforms, yet the Future section explicitly refers to mobile platforms:

"Other developments include downsizing industrial arms for consumer applications and using industrial arms in combination with more intelligent Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) to make the automation chain more flexible between pick-up and drop-off."

Certainly IEEE considers AGVs to be industrial robots; their Robotics & Automation group focuses on mobile platforms, as does their Industrial Activities Board.

external links: only one link per industrial robot manufacturer (either link to headquarter or to english speaking page), no links to their distributors or integrators.

The reference to the Stanford arm is in error. The Stanford arm was not the prototype for the PUMA. Scheinman designed a second arm for the MIT AI Lab. That was called the "MIT arm" and that's the one that evolved into the PUMA.

[edit] External Links

Someone called Veiner removed the entire external links to robot manufacturers section. I've asked him why. He has made no contribution to industrial robot before as far as I can see. Maybe he thinks they are commercial. On the other hand the remaining 'other links' are distinctly commercial. For example I can't see why Tim King is in there at all. Unless anyone objects I propose to put back the links to manufacturers and edit the list of 'other links' to those that are relevant to industrial robot if any. Robotics1 18:01, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] History

This looks like a good idea by the Bangladeshi student but he embedded his name even his phone number in the text. Plus the text was one long paragraph and needs to be made into a readable list. There had been so many edits with his name and phone number I just had to revert right back to the 18th august version. Removing each bit would have taken too long. The list can go back providing it is properly organized and has no name address and phone number. Robotics1 08:57, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

In fact there already is a list of the history of robotics in ROBOT. All this person has done is cut and the text out of that neat table and paste it into this article without any heading or any table. Robotics1 09:02, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rework of this article.

I want to make some major changes but I don't want to step on the toes of the original writer.

My main concern is 'movements and singularities'. I think this should move up above 'robot programming'. Then the part of 'movement and singularities' which describes point to point programming should be moved down to below and part of 'robot programming'. Then I would like to copy the part of 'robot software' which describes how this point to point program would actually be programmed using various languages used in industrial robots.

Coming back to what will be left of 'movement and sigularities' I would like to expand a little on robot movement. I can't actually see any singularities at all in this section but I may have a different understanding of the word singularity. I would like to put in an example of a singularity in terms of what can go wrong.

Any comments please. Robotics1 21:47, 20 September 2007 (UTC)