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Gentlemen,

I have just come back, late last night, from another week in Italy this time on a Fanuc Robotics training course and thought you might like to see pictures of the Robots of today. Pictures in the usual place.

Martin P

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Campingstoveman
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These aren't proper robots. Real robots look like the ones on Fireball XL5 and Lost in Space and talk in funny nasaly voices.

The presence of robots on a modern production facility makes a permit to work system essential. On false key stroke on a remote PC and a fitters head is removed. They may be ultra efficient, no sickness or maternty leave, but their conversation is very limited.

John

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John Manders

Here's a conundrum for you John, in Blackpool one of the rides is a seat bolted to the arm of an industrial robot .How do you operate a permit to work for that.

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the way I have had several years working with these kinds of machines and know the permit to work system backwards and I have experienced the pain of being hit by one at a show in front of several visitors. No serious injury but did I bleed and that came about not from a PTW but by complaisancy on my part.

Martin P

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Campingstoveman

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CHARLES HAMILTON

Czech !

"robota" meaning "mindless task" in a rather derogatory manner. "robotnik" might have also been created at the same time, but it would have been seen as a deliberate insult, not just a synonym for "workman".

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Andy Dingley

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