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The Pransky interview: Helen Greiner, Serial Robotics Entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of CyPhy Works, CoFounder iRobot Corporation

Pransky, Joanne - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 42 (2015) 3, pp. 181-185

Purpose The following article is a “Q&A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot Journal as a method to impart the combined technological, business and personal experience of a prominent, robotic industry engineer-turned entrepreneur regarding the evolution,...

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Design and experimental study of a new thrown robot based on flexible structure

Wang, Wei; Wu, Shilin; Zhu, Peihua; Li, Xuepeng - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 42 (2015) 5, pp. 441-449

Purpose – The paper aims to present a new thought for design of a thrown robot based on flexible structures. The aim of the design is to reduce the weight and improve the anti-impact capability for mini thrown robot. Design/methodology/approach – A mass-spring wheeled robot model is proposed...

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The Pransky interview: Dr Yulun Wang, Founder and CEO of InTouch Health

Pransky, Joanne - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 42 (2015) 5, pp. 381-385

Purpose – The following paper is a “Q & A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot Journal as a method to impart the combined technological, business and personal experience of a prominent, robotic industry engineer-turned entrepreneur regarding the evolution,...

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The Pransky interview: Dr Martin Buehler, Executive R & D Imagineer at Walt Disney Imagineering and renowned expert in advanced robotics

Pransky, Joanne - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 42 (2015) 6, pp. 497-501

, Executive R & D Imagineer, at Walt Disney Imagineering. Dr Buehler is a global expert in robot manipulation and mobile robots …

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Wave-transmitting method for a travelling-wave-type omnidirectional mobile robot

Konno, Masashi; Mizota, Yutaka; Nakamura, Taro - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 42 (2015) 1, pp. 19-24

Purpose – This paper aims to develop a wave-transmitting mechanism for a travelling-wave-type omnidirectional mobile robot. Existing omnidirectional mechanisms are prone to movement instability because they establish a small contact area with the ground. The authors have developed a novel...

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The Pransky interview: Dr Rodney Brooks, Robotics Entrepreneur, Founder and CTO of Rethink Robotics

Pransky, Joanne - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 42 (2015) 1, pp. 1-4

Purpose – This article, a “Q&A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot Journal , aims to impart the combined technological, business, and personal experience of a prominent, robotic industry engineer-turned entrepreneur regarding the evolution, commercialization, and...

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Map-based localization for mobile robots in high-occluded and dynamic environments

Wang, Yong; Chen, Weidong; Wang, Jingchuan - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 41 (2014) 3, pp. 241-252

mobile robots to maintain localization accuracy in the high-occluded and dynamic environments with moving people. Design …/methodology/approach – First, the localizability of mobile robots is defined to evaluate the influences of both the dynamic obstacles and prior … proposed algorithm will be tested in a social welfare home in the future. Original/value – The localizability of mobile robots …

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Design and experimental verification of an intelligent wall-climbing welding robot system

Gui, Zhongcheng; Deng, Yongjun; Sheng, Zhongxi; Xiao, … - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 41 (2014) 6, pp. 500-507

Purpose – This paper aims to present a new intelligent wall-climbing welding robot system for large-scale steel structure manufacture, which is composed of robot body, control system and welding system. Design/methodology/approach – The authors design the robot system according to...

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Inexpensive spatial position system for the automation of inspection with mobile robots

Al Rashed, Mohammed Abdullah; Sattar, Tariq Pervez - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 41 (2014) 6, pp. 508-517

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a wireless positioning system. The automation of non-destructive testing (NDT) of large and complex geometry structures such as aircraft wings and fuselage is prohibitively expensive, though automation promises to improve on manual ultrasound...

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The Pransky interview: Dr Paolo Pirjanian, CTO of iRobot Corporation

Pransky, Joanne - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 41 (2014) 1, pp. 1-5

Purpose – PhD/inventor builds consumer robot start-up company based on low-cost, groundbreaking visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) visual sensors and NorthStar® navigation technologies that sells for nearly $75 million dollars 12 years later. The following article is a...

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