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Volume 20, Issue 6
1 June 1993
Industrial Robot: the international journal of robotics research and application Cover Image for Volume 20, Issue 6
Review Article| June 01 1993

Howden Tunnel‐boring Machine

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-5791
Print ISSN: 0143-991X
© MCB UP Limited
1993
Industrial Robot (1993) 20 (6): 33–36.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb004595

For this review of heavy duty robots Jack Hollingum went to Scotland to see a tunnel‐boring machine just completed by James Howden, and met Dr Owen Davies, Technical Manager, who considered the opportunities for automation and robotics in such machines.

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