Talk:Industrial robot

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Only Content regarding industrial robots due to International Federation of Robotics and ISO definition (e.g. no service robotic, no automation systems, no mobile platforms), only articulated robots, cartesian, parallel, scara robots, flex picker. For other robotics content see robotics, robot, Autonomous_robot, Laboratory_robotics, Battlefield_robot, social robots or ludobot.

Jdietsch 10:06, 19 June 2006 (UTC) You say that there should be no mobile platforms, yet the Future section explicitly refers to mobile platforms:

"Other developments include downsizing industrial arms for consumer applications and using industrial arms in combination with more intelligent Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) to make the automation chain more flexible between pick-up and drop-off."

Certainly IEEE considers AGVs to be industrial robots; their Robotics & Automation group focuses on mobile platforms, as does their Industrial Activities Board.

external links: only one link per industrial robot manufacturer (either link to headquarter or to english speaking page), no links to their distributors or integrators.

The reference to the Stanford arm is in error. The Stanford arm was not the prototype for the PUMA. Scheinman designed a second arm for the MIT AI Lab. That was called the "MIT arm" and that's the one that evolved into the PUMA.