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Volume 8, Issue 4
1 April 1981
Industrial Robot: the international journal of robotics research and application Cover Image for Volume 8, Issue 4
Review Article| April 01 1981

Solving the basics can lead to better robot design

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-5791
Print ISSN: 0143-991X
© MCB UP Limited
1981
Industrial Robot (1981) 8 (4): 242–244.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb004811

The Microengineering Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology(EPFL), situated on the outskirts of Lausanne has over eight years of robot research experience. It has studied some of the basic problems of configuration, control, drive systems, etc. and many solutions are now finding their way into industry. Brian Rooks recently visited the Laboratory.

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