Industrial Robot Simplified

An industrial robot is a machine that can be programmed, controlled and manipulated in three or more axes for use in industries. When looking for more technical information regarding the industrial robot, there are some aspects that you have to have knowledge of. This article takes a brief look at some of the defining parameters of this machine.

The first parameter is the number of axes. Axes is used in this case to describe the three dimensions in a Cartesian plane, and not the wood chopping tool. For industrial purpose, the arm of this machine must be programmable to ensure that it can turn and twist in three dimensions, that is to yaw, to
roll and to pitch.

The degrees of freedom of a machine is another defining parameter. This is the same as the number of axes of the machine, and they are not always necessarily three. Some robots are designed only to work in two dimensions. The working envelope of a machine is the range within which robots can work. In other words, it is how far it can reach with its arm.

The kinematics of robots refers to how the joints and rigid parts of the machine are arranged. How these parts are arranged determine how they move as a unit.

There are three distinct classes of robots, each of which has unique kinematics. These are Cartesian, parallel and SCARA. The carrying capacity of robots is used to describe how much load it can carry at a time.

The speed of an industrial robot describes how fast the end of the arm of the robot can be moved. Whether it is measured in angular speed or linear speed is dependent on the manufacturer or any other interested party. Acceleration is another important parameter when it comes to robots, and it is used to describe how each arm can move from one point to another in a given time.

The accuracy of robots describes how one of them is able to reach and work at a certain point once the command has been given. How accurate it is said to be is measured by measuring by how much it fails to hit its intended target. The accuracy of robots can be adjusted using technologies like infrared and other sophisticated systems of vision. There are various techniques of calibrating robots.

Another frequently used parameter is the repeatability of a machine. This is used in reference to how accurately it is able to get back to a certain position once it has performed a certain task. If it is asked to get to a certain position in a plane after performing a task, but it keeps missing the point by the smallest of margins.

It has to be calibrated to correct this problem.It is important to note the difference between accuracy and repeatability in reference to an industrial robot. The latter is more important than the other.

It is therefore more important to have repeatability than to have accuracy by a robot. In the true sense, repeatability depends, of course, on accuracy.

First Robot

emotions. The current advancement in technology has seen the invention of the first robot that has the potential of developing and displaying emotions.

Depending on how this robot is treated, it will be able to form bonds with people he meets. Note that the more time it spends interacting with someone, the more it learns the moods of that person and the stronger that bond will be.

A computer scientist from one of the reputable universities in the world, who was the head of the team that created the object's emotions, said that they are now working on the non-verbal cues.

He disclosed that the emotions are revealed via gestures, physical postures and body movements rather than verbal or facial expression.

The scientist also revealed that in the near future, these objects will be able to act like companions or integrate with web to order for groceries online.

They will also be able to offer support for the elderly. Note that performing these activities, these facilities will need some kind of emotional display, to ensure those interactions are more comfortable and natural.

Though numerous Japanese researchers are at the peak of the advancement in robot engineering, it is evident that lots of their European counterparts are more focused on how these objects will be able to interact with human beings.

An artificial intelligence professor has also developed one that has the shape of a boy of two years, with the ability of making facial expression and also play games like peek-a-boo. The scientist has also built a flat, where a house-help robot does interact with volunteers, for purposes of studying long-term relationships between machines and people.

This unique object has also been programmed to mimic a one-year-old child's emotional skills, learning and interpreting particular cues from human and responding appropriately. The object can use video cameras to determine the closeness of a person and a sensor to detect how tactile the person is.

This facility is also able to determine whether his human friends are looking, then follow their gaze and then memorize the faces of different people. By use of a neural network brain, the robot is able to recall the interactions it had with different people.

With this understanding together with basic laws of what is right or wrong for him, which is learned from exploring his surrounding, the object is able to show whether he is sad, happy or frightened with whatever is happening around him.

Though the display actions of every emotion are programmed beforehand, he will decide by himself at what time to display an emotion or a combination of them.

These responses have great implications to help someone to naturally interact with this object. If people will be able to naturally behave around these facilities, they will be greatly accepted when they become more frequent in our lives.


This first robot with emotional side can be programmed to contain different personalities. An independent one will be less likely to ask for help when exploring an area, whereas a needy and fearful one will display anguish if it finds a strange thing in the area that seem potentially harmful.

Overall, people have to be prepared to interact with these facilities in the near future.