A Lamberton heavy duty robot has been installed at a South Yorkshire company to palletise refractory tiles.

OTC from Japan is working closely with Norman Butters of the UK on developing TIG robot welding systems

A new British company has just introduced a robot designed principally for adhesive laying application. Its principle features are low cost and easy programming.

Hitachi, Fanuc and Nachi have developed off‐line programming systems. John Hartley reports

The British Robot Association has just published its annual robot statistics. This report looks at how the UK is proceeding and brings in figures from other countries for comparison.

The revolutionary Spine robot has now entered the very competitive spray painting market.

Air‐plasma cutting is a new application for robots. Torsteknik have installed a complete system to cut chassis parts at one of Volvo's plants in Sweden

With more than 200 applications already in use worldwide, the use of robots for applying sealants and adhesives is set to increase rapidly

The industrial robot has now become accepted in almost every sector of manufacturing industry as this review of robot applications and specifications shows.

With a wealth of experience in the assembly of small electronics assemblies, Sony has introduced a very fast SCARA‐type robot