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Volume 10, Issue 3
1 March 1983
Industrial Robot: the international journal of robotics research and application Cover Image for Volume 10, Issue 3
Review Article| March 01 1983

An ‘ivory tower’ with its feet in the market place Available to Purchase

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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-5791
Print ISSN: 0143-991X
© MCB UP Limited
1983
Industrial Robot (1983) 10 (3): 190–191.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb004840

Birmingham University's Mechanical Engineering Department has developed a robot and a range of grippers. Brian Rooks examines the commercial possibilities for these products.

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