Using CMM arm slashes robot programming 90%: robots are faster, stronger, more accurate, and have more stamina than their human counterparts. But robots also can have a big drawback--they learn new jobs very slowly. That is changing.(QC/Measurement/Inspection)

From: Modern Applications News | Date: October 1, 2004 | Copyright information

Programming has been so time-consuming that for 30 years robots have been unable to fulfill their promise of automating complex tasks unless those tasks were part of very long run production runs.

To teach a robot a new job, the arm is moved, or "jogged," to each of hundreds of points in 3D space to which the robot must go to perform a specific job. This is "online" programming and its big drawback is that the robot needs to be taken out of production during the programm...

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