Experience in using a pair of robots to serve a notching press by NEI Peebles has fully justified its initial investment. Large savings are encouraging the company to expand its use of robots.

Having built up a substantial robots business quickly, the Japanese consumer electronic giant is now looking for broader pastures. John Hartley investigates.

BTR Silvertown is producing components for structural bearings on a flexible coating cell. Batches as low as one‐off are possible from the cell supplied by Fairey Automation. Brian Rooks reports.

Stock control for a diesel engine manufacturer has been revolutionised by an automatic laser marking cell. Brian Rooks went along to find out how it worked.

The results and description of the TESTROBOT program are presented. This is a module of The FMS Software Library developed by the author.

Several new robots, including some for special applications, were unveiled at Mechatronics Japan '84. John Hartley reports.

This West Midlands company is turning its attention to materials handling for which it is developing a new robot.

The first industrial application of Hazmac's Workmaster robot is to clean aircraft fuel tanks at British Aerospace's Filton factory. Brian Rooks reports.

At present, Japan is the leader in the application of industrial robots, with approximately 50% of the population. This article traces some of the factors favouring this diffusion.

Hitachi is pursuing a modular approach with a new robot, while investigating some novel designs. John Hartley reports