Purpose – To provide a concise briefing on the developments in robotic welding. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on the ABB “Open Days” held at its UK operation. Findings – Gives information on the launch of MultiArc; the arc welding application based on its MultiMove...

Purpose – To provide a concise briefing on a robot hand. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is to present briefly the development and features of a robot hand by the Shadow Robot Company for one of its customers. Findings – Finds that the robot hand replicates the characteristics...

Purpose – The problem of estimating the minimum forces extracted by robot fingers on the surface of a grasped rigid object is very crucial to guarantee the stability of the grip without causing defect or damage to the grasped object. Solving this problem is investigated in this paper....

Purpose – Selection of an effective grasp of a complex object using a multifingered gripper is a challenging problem because of the many possible grasp positions that are typically available. Design/methodology/approach – Given the geometrical description of the particular object feature to...

Purpose – Resulting from the need for fast and insightful modeling combined with the drawbacks of available modeling environments, provides details of work developed on an automated modelling environment. Design/methodology/approach – An automated modeling environment for serial manipulators...