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Volume 6, Issue 2
1 February 1979
Industrial Robot: the international journal of robotics research and application Cover Image for Volume 6, Issue 2
Review Article| February 01 1979

Mobile robots for industrial use Available to Purchase

M.H.E. Larcombe
M.H.E. Larcombe
University of Warwick, U.K.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-5791
Print ISSN: 0143-991X
© MCB UP Limited
1979
Industrial Robot (1979) 6 (2): 70–76.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb004752

The free roving robot in the form of a computer controlled industrial truck is now technically possible. The use of small on‐board computers and navigation aids frees the robot from dependence on fixed route marking. Conventional vehicles such as fork lift trucks may be modified for autonomous or semi‐autonomous control.

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