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Automotive Design & Production, August, 2004
Speedy SCARA. A quick--as in a composite maximum speed of 7,500 mm/sec (the Z-axis moves at 2,000 mm/sec)--SCARA robot is being launched by the Control Systems Div. of Toshiba Machine Co., America (Elk Grove Village, IL; www.toshibamachine.com). Well suited to assembly tasks as it provides a repeatability of +/-0.015 mm on the X- and Y-axes, the TH650 has an arm span of 650 mm. The maximum payload is 10 kg. The controller Features a parallel processing capability that facilitates simultaneous processing of input and output signals during the robot operation--key when the arm is moving so quickly.
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