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Volume 30, Issue 4
1 August 2003
Industrial Robot: the international journal of robotics research and application Cover Image for Volume 30, Issue 4
Research Article| August 01 2003

Tool changers enhance robot versatility

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-5791
Print ISSN: 0143-991X
© MCB UP Limited
2003
Industrial Robot (2003) 30 (4): 306–309.
https://doi.org/10.1108/01439910310479540

This paper describes the benefits and requirements of robot tool changers and the selection criteria. In particular, expands on the design of the ATI quick‐change tool changer and provides examples of industrial applications.

Keywords: Robots, Flexibility
© MCB UP Limited
2003
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