38 Robotics Manipulator Companies part1
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This article is from the Robotics FAQ, by Kevin Dowling nivek@cs.cmu.edu with numerous contributions by others.
38 Robotics Manipulator Companies part1
This is only a partial list of manipulator manufacturers. A wide
variety of arms and arm components are made by these vendors and other
vendors.
"Adept Technology"
150 Rose Orchard Way
San Jose, CA 95134
tel: 408.432.0888
fax: 408.432.8707
url: [24]http://www.adept.com/
High speed direct-drive and harmonic-drive SCARA style arms. 0.001"
(.025mm) repeatabiliy. Payloads from 4-25kg Can be used in clean room
and food applications as well. Adept also sells vision systems and
controllers.
"AEA Technology"
AEA is the commercial division of the UK Atomic Energy Authority.
markets the NEATER series telerobots for decommssioning in the nuclear
industry. The system includes a bilateral input device and active
(autonomous) force control.
The system can deploy drills, reciprocating saws, nibblers, grippers
for insertions etc. Larger range of robots including the AEA
Technology 200 Kg arm, use filtering compliance to avoid damage to the
robot when deploying heavy duty dismantling tools.
"Antenen Research"
PO Box 95
Hamilton, OH 45012
tel: 800.323.9555
tel: 513.887.4700
fax: 513.887.4703
New and used robots for manufacturing, research and training. Used at
savings of 40% - 70%. Also lots of parts and accessories.
"Asea Brown Boveri (ABB), Vesteraas, Sweden"
ABB Robotics
2487 South Commerce Drive
New Berlin, WI 53151
tel: 414.785.3400
fax: 414.789.9235
Now own Cinncinatti Milacron robotics group, Graco and Trallfa. ABB
Robotics is part of a ABB, large swiss-based company, with Many types
of larger industrial robots. Many are optimized for painting, welding
and sealant applications.
"Comau - Italy"
Via Rivalta 30
10095 Grugliasco
Torino, Italy
tel: 011 33341
fax: 011 7809156
A variety of industrial manipulators ranging in payloads from 6kg to
125kg. All electric AC drives. One of the novel designs is a 6DOF,
12kg payload robot The SMART-3 6.12 R. It uses a carbon fibre forearm,
absolute resolver feedback and 0.15mm repeatability.
"CRS Plus,"
5344 John Lucas Drive
Burlington, Ontario
Canada L7L 6A6
tel: 905.332.2000
fax: 905.?
Sells several manipulators. 5-DOF around $25K, 6DOF around $33K. Sell
end-effectors as well (electric, vacuum and penumatic) Wrist can be
bought separately. Controllers use RAPL, a VAL-like language. Fairly
open architecture. 3Kg payloads +/- 0.05mm repeatability.
"Eshed Robotics"
Eshed Robotec
Israel (HQ)
tel: 03-498136
fax: 03-498889
In the US
Eshed Robotec Inc.
445 Wall St.
Princeton, NJ 08540-1504
tel: 609.683.4884
tel: 800.777.6288
Eshed Robotec BV
Oude Torenweg 29
5388 RK Nistelrode
The Netherlands
tel: +31.412.611476
fax: +31.412.613185
net: [25]eshedbv@pi.net
url: [26]http://www.pi.net/~eshedbv/ and [27]http://www.eshed.com
Eshed makes a variety of robot manipulators for education, training
and instructional use. This includes a half-dozen manipulator
products, vision systems and a variety of machining and
manufacturing systems. Eshed has sold over 8000 robots for training
and education.
Eshed has many dealers throughout Europe. Many dealers can be found
at: [28]dealer list
"International Submarine Engineering Ltd, ISE"
1734 Broadway Street
Port Coquitlam, B.C.
Canada V3C 2M8
tel: 604.942.5223
fax: 604.942.7577
url: [29]http://www.ise.bc.ca/ E-mail: [30]info@ise.bc.ca
Underwater manipulators and teleoperated underwater vehicles.
"Kawasaki Robotics (USA Inc.)"
28059 Center Oaks Court
Wixom MI 48393
tel: 810.305.7610
fax: 810.305.7618
[31]KR Home page Kawasaki was the first Japanese mfg to lead in the
production of industrial robots. They licensed the former Unimation
line of robots and now make about a dozen types of electric arms for
welding, painting and assembly.
"Kinetic Sciences"
3250 East Mall
Vancouver, BC, CANADA V6T 1W5
tel: 604.822.2144
fax: 604.822.6188
net: [32]info@kinetic.bc.ca
url:
[33]http://www.asi.bc.ca/asi/affiliates/kinetic/KSI_home_pg.html
Kinetic Sciences Inc. (KSI) provides technology innovation, research
services and product development in the field of advanced robotics
for operation in hazardous or menial environments. Our areas of
expertise include: innovative robotic mechanisms (such as our
Tentacle robot arm), computer vision (6 DOF position measurement and
automatic inspection), advanced sensors, and autonomous control. For
further information check out our web pages at: [34]KSI
"Komatsu"
Construction Robotics Department
contact: Shigeo Ohno
fax: 81.44-288-6177 (japan)
email: shigo-o@aix.or.jp
url: [35]http://www.japan.hosting.ibm.com:80/komatsu/index-e.htm
(English)
The LM15-1 mini crane is a compact and portable electrically powered
manipulation system. The device can be transported in a van and can
be easily moved up and down stairs by rubber crawler tracks or
winched vertically. The LM15-1 can work in relatively small spaces
of 4x10m in area. It is powered by 100VAC, and has wireless remote
control. Load specifications are 150kg at 3m. The telescoping boom
can reach to 4m. It can be stored in a compact size of about 1m^2
and can be split into two even smaller pieces to ease storage and
transport further.
See the URL listed above for more details and pictures. Price:
Y3,200,000 (between US$25-32K depending on the exchange rate)
"Kraft Telerobotics"
11667 W. 90th Street
Overland Park, KS 66214
tel: 913.894.9022
fax: 913.894.1363 Nice telerobotic arms for underwater work.
"Labman Automation Ltd"
Stokesley, North Yorkshire. TS9 5JY. UK
net: tel:INT 44 642 710580
url: [36]www.quay.co.uk/labman/
[soon to be www.zebra.co.uk/labman/] Contact: Andrew Whitwell
Tailoring mainly gantry based systems for laboratory applications.
Designs include storage systems, multiple manipulators, special
probes, modification of instruments and laboratory equipment. PC
driven stepper drives, linear drives, dc motors, pneumatics, all
sensors, RS232 links, LIMS communication. Systems include powder
feeding, wet chemistry analysis, microtitre plate handling and many
more.
"mecos Robotics AG"
Technopark Zurich
Pfingstweidstrasse 30
CH-8005 Zurich
Switzerland
tel: + 41 1 445 11 35
fax: + 41 1 445 11 34
net: mecos@mecos.ch
Contact: E. Nielsen Spin-off of the Institute of Robotics, ETH
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). Modular and adaptive robot
manipulators and robot vehicles (mobile robots). All mecos Robotics
systems use a VME based computer as controller. The system comes
with high level development tools, and are open systems. The
manipulator's mechanical configuration can be changed at will
(number and type of joints, length of links, etc.) Manipulators use
linear aluminum extrusions with integral motions for joints. The
controller accounts for configuration changes. With this principle
of modularity and flexibilty hybrid force / position controllers
have been realised on "mecos Robotics" arms. Price depending on
configuration (50.000,- Swiss Franks and upwards). NTSC or PAL
videos available for Sfr. 40 per tape.
"Mitsubishi" Mitsubishi PA-10 portable robot.
7 DOF, with continuous path control
Supposedly *open* control architecture, using PC
30 Kg arm, 25 Kg controller, 10 Kg payload
[I have no other information on this, anyone?]
"Motoman [Hobart/Yaskawa]"
Corporate Office:
805 Liberty Lane,
West Carrollton, OH, 45449.
tel: 513.847.3300
Sales Office
Dublin, OH
tel: 614.718.6200 Large industrial manipulators for welding,
painting, palletizing, dispensing, etc. Can be floor, ceiling or
wall mount units. Payloads for the 8 robots in the K-series range
from 3kg to 100kg and repeatability of 0.1 to 0.5 mm over that same
range. They are vertical jointed-arm type manipulators. (i.e. 4 bar
linkage to reduce arm intertias). 3 S-series robots are SCARA-type
manipulators with payloads of 50-60kg and varying workspace sizes
Yaskawa also has bought the rights to RobotWorld, Vic Schienman's
unique gantry design robot system. This system allow a number of
mobile modules in the same workspace to zip around at speeds up
80"/sec (3G accel). RAIL and C can be used in a multilevel
programming environment. 0.002" Accuracy, 0.0005" repeatability.
Neat stuff.
"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.
"Robotic Systems International (RSI), Ltd."
9865 W. Saanick Rd.
Sydney, BC V8L 3S1
Canada
tel: 604.656.0101
"UMI Microbot "[no longer in business in the US]
In the UK:
Oxford Intelligent Machines, UK
tel: 0865 204881 Originally known as the Microbot teachmover. A
small cable driven manipulator for desktop robotics. Excellent
teaching tool. Original design by John Hill (now at SRI) Microbot
was bought out by the British company UMI two years ago. In May,
1991 they moved from Silicon Valley to Detroit, MI. As of Early
1994, only the UK company was still in business.
"USA Robot"
PO Box 4018
Portland, ME 04101
tel: 207.761.9039 Maxym production robots for business. Simple
accurate 3D linear motions coupled with power tooling such as
routers, air drills and sanders. Workspaces up to 60cmx147cmx15cm.
IBMPC software for designing parts and production path but takes DXF
files as input. Not a machine like the giant production turning and
routing machines used by large furniture makers but is a nice small
machine for small production shops. Prices range from $14.5K to
$19.9K.
"Western Space and Marine"
111 Santa Barbara St.
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
tel: 805.963.3831
fax: 805.963.3832 Telerobotic manipulators for space and undersea
applications.
"Yamaha Robotics"
PO Box 956
Broomall, PA 19008-0956
tel: 800 92-YAMAHA
fax: 610.543.8113 Yamaha makes HXYA series of light cartesian
robots. AC brushless motors can move payloads up to 50kg at 1.4m/s.
Aluminum extruded frames that are lightweight, rigid and easy to
mount. Work envelope sizes from 250mm x250mm to 2050mm x 1050mm.
"Zymark Corp"
Zymark Center
Hopkinton, MA 01748-1668
tel: 508-435-9500 Robots for laboratory automation. Zymate Robots.
Other companies: (no addresses, yet)
Furukawa
Sumitomo
Chubu
Beckman Biomark
HP ORCA
Tecan
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