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Serviceroboter “Hobbit” (TU Vienna) Project with robolink® arm

Martin Raak | 10. January 2013

The Vision4Robotics Group at Vienna University of Technology (Team Dr. Walter Wohlkinger) is leading the project “Hobbit” in cooperation with our customer Hella Automation in Austria. Stefan Hofmann has equipped the robot with a robolink® joint arm (5DOF with angle sensors) and a FESTO adaptive gripper. They are using their own motors for the actuation. Here […]

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robolink® angle Sensors (general description and technical details)

Martin Raak | 8. January 2013

First of all I want to thank all robolink® users and customers for interesting projects in 2012 and wish you all a happy and exciting new year 2013. The last year brought us projects from USA, China, India, Japan, Austria, France, Slovenia, Turkey, Macedonia, Italy, England, Switzerland, Poland, Brazil, Great Britain, and the Netherlands (besides […]

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robolink as camera crane

Martin Raak | 6. December 2012

Our customer “Kuno Seebaß Medienproduktion” in Germany was one of our earlier beta testers. He built this nice camera crane with our joints. His aim is to optimize it now with more igus components. I like the video because it shows nicely our possibilities with robolink in these applications. Please visit also Kuno Seebaß’ website:  […]

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robolink joints and grippers

Martin Raak | 5. December 2012

Some words about grippers in combination with our robolink joint arms: Different grippers can be attached to our arm tubes. One common solution are pneumatic grippers. They are (often) lightweight and not so expansive. We can adapt several grippers from SCHUNK, FESTO, GIMATIC, FIPA and others easily. Please ask us. Also suction systems are (usually) […]

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robolink on the german trade shows COMPAMED and SPS

Martin Raak | 28. November 2012

I have decided to write my blog in english from today on. Please poste a comment if you don’t like it that way! Thank you. Attached 2 films as impressions from the german trade shows COMPAMED in Düsseldorf and SPS in Nürnberg in Nov. 2012:   In our new “Torso” you can see how the drive […]

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