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Volume 31, Issue 3
1 June 2004
Industrial Robot: the international journal of robotics research and application Cover Image for Volume 31, Issue 3
Research Article| June 01 2004

Robots unchallenged as the auto industry's workhorse

John Mortimer
Freelance manufacturing and engineering journalist based in Milton Keynes, UK
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-5791
Print ISSN: 0143-991X
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2004
Industrial Robot (2004) 31 (3): 264–272.
https://doi.org/10.1108/01439910410532341

The automotive industry has been the principal driver in the development of robotics; however, as car design becomes more sophisticated, demands on robot makers will continue undiminished.

Keywords: Robotics, Welding, Automotive industry, Diodes, Sensors
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2004
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