THE MAN-MACHINE INTERFACE GET FRIENDLIER AT MANUFACTURING WEEK

A report on robots at the Manufacturing Week exhibition, highlighting some of the developments on show in the man-machine interface field. T his reveals that the Windows environment is becoming increasingly popu lar for robot manufacturers. Special attention is given to the exhibit s of two robot companies. In the first, a new robot off-line programmi ng and simulation system from Kuka is described. Its uniqueness is tha t the robot controller logic module and software is embedded into the off-line programming PC, so that developed programs can be directly do wnloaded to the robot. The second, shown by System Devices, is a Windo ws-based programming support package developed by Epson for its SCARA robots.