Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a coordinated control strategy for stable walking of biped robot with heterogeneous legs (BRHL), which consists of artificial leg (AL) and intelligent bionic leg (IBL). Design/methodology/approach – The original concentrated control in common...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of present‐day and anticipated future applications of robots in the food industry. Design/methodology/approach – The paper discusses the use of robots in the agriculture and farming, processing and packaging and retail sectors of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe new walking assist devices Honda is developing. Design/methodology/approach – The exhibition, press release and interview are described. The features of the walking assist devices are presented. Findings – The paper finds that Honda is...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the capabilities, technological features and applications of a particular industrial robot simulation package. Design/methodology/approach – The paper begins with an introduction to the general characteristics and distinguishing technological...

Purpose – Damage of oil and gas long‐distance transmission pipelines caused by corrosion, stresses, geological change, and other factors can result in catastrophic failures. The purpose of this paper is to describe a mobile out‐pipe inspection robot for the pipeline inspection....

Purpose – Wall climbing robots' volume is needed to be very small in fields that workspace is limited, such as anti‐terror scouting, industry pipe network inspecting and so on. The purpose of this paper is to design a miniature wall climbing robot with biomechanical suction cups actuated by...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the mechanical design and stability analysis of a new stair‐climbing robotic wheelchair. Design/methodology/approach – A prototype stair‐climbing robotic wheelchair is constructed comprising a pair of rotational multi‐limbed structures...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of time delay on the ability of a human operator to complete a task with a teleoperated mobile‐robot using two systems, two different ways of interacting with the mobile‐robots and several different environments....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop an efficient online monitoring system. It can improve the welding quality through the real‐time analysis of the welding image information. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, a set‐variable precision rough set (VPRS) modeling...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to solve the path‐planning problem of industrial robots in complex environments. Design/methodology/approach – A direct method (in each step, the path is been recorded) is presented in which the search of the path is made in the state space of the...