To achieve high working speed and high positional accuracy, the weight of a robot arm must be reduced.

A new framing system at Vauxhall Motors' Ellesmere Port factory uses half the robots of other framing systems but offers greater flexibility.

A robot arc weld monitoring system has been developed at the Cranfield Institute of Technology with the capability of networked monitoring of a large number of robots

By 1988 Jaguar Cars will have in place one of the most advanced body assembly lines for its prestige luxury car, the XJ6. John Mortimer reports.

The manufacture by two GKN companies of outer race bells for transmission shafts has recently benefitted from the application of robots. Report by Anna Kochan

Following a first success with robotics, Systems Designers hopes to become a major force in the field. Anna Kochan reports.

The Turing Institute is rapidly establishing itself as one of the world's leading centres for Al and robotics research, as Stephen McClelland discovered.

The British Robot Association annually awards a Travel scholarship. The 1986 winner from Imperial College reports on the first stage of his tour, to Sweden

A project to decommission the Windscale Advanced Gas‐cooled Reactor requires the design of a robot or manipulator to enter the reactor core.

Electric drives continue to find favour over hydraulic and pneumatic ones for many robot applications and are still developing, as Stephen McClelland explains