...Robert Bogue Purpose This paper aims to provide details of the safety considerations, technologies and standards associated with robots that interact with, or operate in proximity to, humans. Design/methodology/approach Following an introduction, this paper first considers collaborative robots...

... be reused, but the integration standards must be common; at present this is not the case and so varying levels of ease of reuse exists for different types of modules. As this is a pilot project to demonstrate clustering, it has been decided that power supply modules offer the easiest option...

...William G. Rippey Network technology is being used more and more to replace direct‐wired links to integrate equipment making up automated and semi‐automated welding systems. Two formal welding standards efforts, one by the American Welding Society A9 Committee and the other by the Open DeviceNet...

...Zhenqi Zhu; Hongliang Cui The ANSI/RIA R15.05‐1‐1990 is an American national industrial robotics standard that covers methods for evaluating the point‐to‐point and static performance of industrial robots. This standard introduces many important concepts for carrying out performance tests...

... © MCB UP Limited 2003 --> Robots Standards Control US patent office awards Robotic Workspace Technologies, Inc. (RWT™) a patent for its versatile robot control system Keywords: Robots, Standards, Control Robotic Workspace Technologies, Inc. (RWT™), a leading...

... alliances Standards Entertainment The International Robot Exhibition is held every two years at the Tokyo International Exhibition Center (Big Sight). The International Robot Exhibition 2001 was held from 13–16 November 2001. In comparison with the last one “International Robot Exhibition 1999...

... © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Standards Keywords: Standards EUREKA, the European network for industrial innovation, and CEN, the European Committee for Standardization, has signed a cooperation agreement, which improves access for companies to the standardisation process...

...Makoto Mizukawa; Hideo Matsuka; Toshihiko Koyama; Akihiro Matsumoto The Japan Robot Association (JARA) has been conducting standardization activities (ORiN: Open Robot Interface for the Network) in which the main subject is the network interface in the robot controller. In the 1999 international...