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An industrial robot is a robot system used for manufacturing. Industrial robots are automated, programmable and capable of movement on two or more axes

An industrial robot is a robot system used for manufacturing. Industrial robots are automated, programmable and capable of movement on two or more axes

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What is the difference between a Robot and a Machine?

What is the difference between a Robot and a Machine? At what point does a machine begin to be called a robot? Is it at a certain level of complexity? Is it when it has software etc?. For instance: A desktop printer has mechanics, electronics and…
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Why are industrial machines called robots?

The definition of a robot is as follow: "A robotic paradigm can be described by the relationship between the three primitives of robotics: Sense, Plan, and Act." An example could be the famous "Kuka Robots". The Kuka robot is preprogrammed and does…
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What is the difference between a CNC router versus a CNC mill?

People at the RepRap 3d-printing project often mention CNC routers or CNC mills. Both kinds of machines almost always have a motorized spindle with stepper motors to move the spindle in the X, Y, and Z directions. What is the difference between a…
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I am an entrepreneur and I want to start building robots for businesses, where do I start?

Over the last couple of years I've had good success with my technology startups and now looking to enter into robotics. I was interested in robotics and automation ever since I was a kid (yes, that sounds nerdy). So my question is: Where to get…
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Definition of payload for industrial robots

I'm currently looking for an industrial robot for a depalletizing application. I had a look at some datasheets but I'm not quite sure how the maximum payload is defined. e.g. the Kuka Agilus weighs 52kg and looks rather strong, but is listed with…
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The costs of using existing 6 axis kuka/abb robots and existing vision systems in picking and placing tasks

I would like to use a Kuka/abb 6 axis robot and a machine vision system to pick and place a variety of metal drill bits in size ranges from 0.5mm (ascending up 0.5mm per cylinde) to 13mm in metric and then 1/16 of an inch ascending to 9/64 of an…
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EGM setup. Not possible to open the UdpUc device

I am trying to set up EGM (Externally Guided Motion from ABB) for Position Guidance using C#. But when the code reaches EGMSetupUC it will always give the error: 41824: Not possible to open the UdpUc device Description It was not possible to open…
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Fanuc Robot "Heat" control

My work has an older Fanuc robot ( Arc Mate 100-iBe RJ3iB, Fanuc AWE2 teach pendant with Powerwave 355M) and the old operator/programmer has left. I have taken over his job and cant find out how to turn down the voltage and wire feed speed because…
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Two DC motors and single output?

I saw one old industrial robot(Year 1988) end effector is having 2 DC motor for roll drive. After roll drive, yaw and pitch drives are connected and it has dc motors separately. But roll drive has two DC motors. Why are they used like this? why not…
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Line Breaks EPSON RC+

Maybe this question belongs on StackOverflow, but it's a robotics software specific question so I wasn't sure. Is there any way to cut a super long line in two in EPSON RC+ 7.4.8? The SPEL + syntax is pretty similar to VBA where you can use " _ " to…
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Epson RC+ line numbers

I am programming an EPSON SCARA robot using RC+ 7.4.8. Any error in compiling the program shows in red in the bottom status bar with the error message, program and line number. This would be wonderful if the program files had line numbers. I have…
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CMA Net - How to export all statistics ? (In Excel/XLS)

On the lower-right of the screen, there is an "Archive" button, from which I go to the dialog box/window where there are Delete, Delete all, Export and Load options, but there is no "Export All" ... The robot in question is manufactured…
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Controlling the robot with joystick values

I struggling days with this problem : I have joystick values 0~FF for each axis. So the higher this value, the faster the axis moves. I am trying to find a way to control a robot with these values. For instance: The 1. axis of the robot should move…
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Cheap light fast industrial robot?

Why are there no simple industrial robots (mainly for simpler tasks like pick and place) that are: Cheap (<=3000$), Lightweight (<=10kg), Fast (600mm/s at end effector), Most of the robots I have looked at cost more than 10K$. Many of cheap ones…
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How are industrial robotics components purchased?

For hobbyists, you go to a store to buy products. The prices for these products are all clearly listed in the store catalog, and you can easily search for parts by lowest price or read customer reviews of the products. For industrial engineers…
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