While many robot equipment suppliers are leaving the business, it is encouraging to hear of new ones entering it. Anna Kochan looks at Garrandale Systems of Derby.

Off‐line simulation was used to design, test and program robot motion for a new process. This minimised machine downtime and production loss.

We would not be here today if we had not invested in robots, says Bernard Robinson, director and chief executive of Tallent Engineering. Anna Kochan reports.

Glenn A. Jackson of GMF Robotics, Auburn Heights, Michigan, USA, presents application studies which solve difficult and labour‐intensive material handling problems.

A new type of car door panel will be produced with the aid of a combined robot and laser cell by the EKCO plastics division of LIN PAC Moulding. Anna Kochan investigated.

Robots do most of the welding and painting, but little assembly in the revamped Takaoka factory which builds 60,000 Corolla cars a month. John Hartley reports.

Austin Rover Group and Computervision have developed a software package for robotic simulation.

Advanced robotics R&D in Japan has been selected as a national project to develop robots to work in dangerous environments like nuclear power plants, undersea and fire fighting.

John Wallace, engineering director at Lamberton Robotics, outlines an unusual robotics application his company has designed for a French forging plant

John Mortimer visits Bisiach & Carru in Turin to try to discover the secret of the Italian firm's success in surviving in the international automation market