... and our daily lives, not only as static robots on a manufacturing line, but as intelligent systems with the potential to replace lawyers and accountants, doctors and teachers, companions and partners, their role in innovation in complex environments needs to be explored. Social implications Human...

...Sabry Shaaban; Sarah Hudson; B.B. Biswal; B.B. Deepak; Y. Rao Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a new methodology to find out the best robotic assembly sequence amongst feasible robotic sequences. Design/methodology/approach The feasible robotic assembly sequences were generated...

...Li‐Hsing Ho Electronics manufacturers use robots extensively in printed circuit board (PCB) assembly to attain high product quality at low production times. In robotic PCB assembly, fixed pick‐and‐place (FPP) causes unnecessary waste of time. A former paper explored the dynamic pick‐and‐place (DPP...

...Chao‐Ton Su; Li‐Hsing Ho; Hsin‐Pin Fu Notes that, until now, to route robotics travel, most investigations have utilized the fixed coordinate of placement points and magazine of the traveling salesman problem (TSP) method to sequence the placement points after the magazine has been arbitrarily...

...Hubert K. Rampersad During recent years numerous design for assembly methods have been developed to optimize product design for robotic assembly and hence reduce assembly costs. Various bottlenecks in product design are, however, still encountered with the widespread application of robotic assembly...

... in many companies due to economic as well as commercial reasons. Presents the intermediate results of a research programme aimed to investigate the technical and economic feasibility of extending the use of a robotic assembly cell to perform single‐board rework. Outlines various manual rework practices...