The US Industrial Robot Market

摘要

Industrial robots today are probrammable, memory‐controlled, open‐loop several degree‐of‐freedom machines with grippers or special handling attachments which can hold and operate hand tools, spray guns, welding heads and power tools, as well as perform workpiece and materials handling, manipulation and transfer functions. Multi‐purpose memory‐control manipulator products have a price range from $15,000 to $47,000. This is Generation 1.