Japan robots

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Although the service-robot market is still immature, the few quantitative studies that have been done indicate that the market for personal-service robots is on the verge of dramatic growth. Recent research by the Japan Robotics Association (JRA), United Nations Economic Commission (UNEC), and International Federation of Robotics (IFR) indicates that the service-robot market will experience exceptional growth, both in the near term (from 600 ntillion in 2002 to... 

School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Robotics Institute, Beihang University, Beijing, China... 

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The CMR and MBRs provided the basis for modern commercial microwave reactors, including robotically operated automated systems that are now widely employed in synthetic research and pilot-scale laboratories in academia and industry [13]. Since 2000, commercial microwave reactors have become available. Batch systems, produced by three major companies in Italy and Germany, Sweden and the United States, typically operate on a scale from 0.5 mL up to 2 L. Other companies based in Austria, Poland and Japan have also recently entered the market. Systems possessing either multimodal or monomodal cavities are produced with one recent addition being a single unit capable of performing in either mode as required. Microwave reactors are employed extensively in chemical discovery where successive reactions can be performed rapidly in parallel or sequentially. One manufacturer recently estimated that about 10000 reactions per week were performed in its systems alone. This indicates the extent to which microwave chemistry in closed vessels has dramatically influenced approaches to synthesis. 

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Munitions are placed in slings and manually hung on the linear rack at the top of the inner vessel by workers in personnel protective equipment (PPE) while standing on a hydraulic lift. (In the operations at Kanda Port, Japan, munitions were hung on the rack with a robotic arm that extended into the vessel.)... 

DAVINCH operations involve munition handling, the manual placement of donor explosives around the munition, and the placement of a detonator into the donor explosive. When handling the mustard agent-filled 155-mm projectiles at BGAD, PPE may be required, although if the projectiles are inserted into the DAVINCH vessel using a robotic arm, as is done in Japan, that operation should not expose workers to explosives or agent. 

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Waseda Univ., Japan not specified (8) robot arm intrinsic same vertical level as the base... 

Bestic (Bestic AB, Stockholm, Sweden) [68], [69] and My Spoon (SECOM Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) [70] are commercially available meal assistance robots that aid people with disabilities to feed themselves. They have the form of an end-effector that is fixed to a table, and their key functions are picking or scooping food and bringing the food to the user s mouth. My Spoon has three operation modes manual, semi-automatic, and automatic. The three modes differ in terms of the amount of user intervention during the feeding motion. In the manual mode, the user controls every single movement of the device with a joystick, whereas a... 

Other robotic microassembly has successfully used air jets, magnetic actuation, or vibrational energy to supply the forces for assembly. In most instances, a global vision system is used to monitor part placement on the two-dimensional assembly grid. Yet another approach popular in Japan is the microfactory which is based on macroscale concepts of fabricating and assembling parts. 

The engineered devices described so far in this subsection have been concerned with alleviating the effects of physical or cognitive impairment. However, the so-called socially assistive robots are proposed as a means of meeting needs for companionship and emotional support [8, 9]. They have been developed, particularly in Japan, for use in the care of elderly persons who are socially isolated. They often have the form of toy animals and have been suggested as sources of pet-like companionship without the requirement for pet-like physical care. Sophisticated robotics allows them to appear to respond to verbal commands and physical interaction in ways that suggest autonomy. 

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