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This article is from the Robotics FAQ,
by Kevin Dowling nivek@cs.cmu.edu with numerous contributions by
others.
76 Robotics Manipulator Companies part3
"Oxford Intelligent Machines (OxIM)"
12 Kings Meadow,
Osney Mead Industrial Estate
Oxford, OX2 0DP, UK
tel: +44 (0) 865 204881
fax: +44 (0) 865 204882
contact: Dr. Peter Davey Incorporated in 1990, OxIM provides a
complete design service in the related fields of industrial sensors
and automation. OxIM is manufacturing and developing robots and
advanced industrial equipment. The MAP-IT vehicle is an open
architecture research vehicle for indoor environments. The top
surface, complete with an array of mounting holes, is available to
the user for moutning experimental sensors and payload. Two direct
drive motor-gearbox units provide locomotion. An extended 3U rack
contains a controller card and power converter drive card. A third
spare slot is provided. 400mm diam with payload surface 200mm above
ground. Remote base station including power supply, dual RS232
ports, Full ANSI source code, 2 spare axes of servo control, bumper
system, 10kg payload, 65W power supply. Several options are also
available including PC interface.
"Salisbury Robotics, Inc."
20 Pemberton St.
Cambridge, MA 02140
tel: 617.661.8847
net: jks@ai.mit.edu Sells the three-fingered Salisbury hand and
force sensing fingertips. Contact: Ken Salisbury,
"Sands Technology International"
US
Sands Technology International Inc.
825 Highway 33, Trenton NJ 08619
tel: 1.609.584.7522
fax: 1.609.584.0239
email: [37]robotics1@aol.com
contact: David Sands or Annis Monforte
UK/Europe
Sands Technology Ltd.
Orwell House, Cowley Road, Cambridge, UK
tel: 44 1223 420288
fax: 44 1223 420291
email: [38]robotics1@dial.pipex.com
contact: David Sands or Cathy George
Sands has been making robots since 1989. Sands make 3 robots, a low
cost 5 axis bench top articulated arm, a bench top cylindrical
format arm and a modular Cartesian arm which can be quite small or
quite large depending on customer needs.
All the robots are low cost, driven by stepping motors with
sophisticated controls. Fairly fast, fairly accurate, very reliable.
The controller is open, and uses an extension of FORTH we called
ROBOFORTH which has over 400 commands (not counting building blocks)
See [39]Sands Home Page for more details including drawings
dimensions, speeds, payloads etc.
"Sarcos Research Corporation"
390 Wakara Way,
Salt Lake City, Utah 84108
tel: 801.581.0155 Spinoff of University of Utah's Center for
Engineering Design (CED). Teleoperated systems, manipulators.
Audio-animatronic work as well. Beautiful force reflecting work and
systems. High performance and small hydraulic valves and actuators.
IP address: sarcos.com
"Schilling"
1632 Da Vinci Court
Davis, CA 95616
tel: 916.753.6718
fax: 916.753.8092 Electro-mechanical engineering and manufacturing
company specializing in telerobotics. Various remote manipulator and
telerobotic manipulator systems.
"Seiko Instruments"
Torrance, CA
tel: 310.517.7850
fax: 310.517-8158
url: [40]Seiko Instruments
Seiko Instruments offers a complete line of industrial robots
including SCARA, Cylindrical and Cartesian robots which are some of
the fastest in the world. They also offer a point and click
Microsoft Windows based Vision System which works with all our
robots or as a stand alone system.
"Sony Corporation of America"
Factory Automation Division
542 Route 303
Orangeburg, NY 10962
tel: 914.365.6000
fax: 914.365.6087 Several SCARA type manipulators including a double
armed manipulator. This model is used for the assembly of 8mm
camcorders!
"Robotics Research Corp."
P.O. Box 206
Amelia, OH 45102
tel: 513.831.9570
fax: 513.381.5802 RRC offers a variety of dexterous manipulators
which can be operated individually or in dual-arm mode. Their second
generation, denoted the "i-Series", is lighter and provides great
dexterity. They are currently building "spaceflight-qualified"
manipulators for NASA (GSFC) using this new generation of their
product. They have also been doing some work developing sensor-based
automatic obstacle detection and avoidance technology which uses a
patented algorithm with arm-mounted sensors. They have also built
two massively-redundant 17-DOF Anthropomorphic systems for Grumman
and JPL to serve as testbeds for researching "man-equivalent" robots
for space applications.
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