... is followed by a description of some of the milestones in pattern recognition, interfacing, operating systems and programming paradigms. Finally, a range of current‐day practical applications is given, from industrial to student project. Findings The paper finds that advances in the speed and robustness...

... Robotics Order picking Pattern recognition In April 2006, FANUC Robotics introduced a new robot controller called the R‐J3iC (Figure 1). It is an advanced controller that supports all FANUC intelligent robots. It has a flexible open architecture allowing users to plug in a variety...

...‐life defects rarely exist in the pressurizer, the training of the network becomes very difficult. A new algorithm is exploited to solve the problem. General considerations about the robot design are also presented. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Pattern recognition Neural networks Inspection...