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COMPANY

PRODUCTS

REMARKS

TYPE

AEA TECHNOLOGY

Bilateral Stewart Platform (BSP)

6-axis force feedback joystick

Industry

AUGUST DESIGN

SMS, Skycam

Ship simulator, cable supported camera

Industry

CAE ELECTRONICS

n/a

Flight simulators

Industry

DELTALAB

EX800

educational 6-DOF parallel robot

Industry

FANUC

F-100

6-axis positioning robot

Industry

GEODETIC

G500, G1000

At Dreamhouse

Industry

GEODETIC

G250, G500, G1000, Robohex

At Geodetic's new web site

Industry

HEXEL CORPORATION

Tornado 2000, Rotary Hexapod, etc.

5-axis milling machines

Industry

MARCO

asy/hex

6-DOF hexapod with piezo actuators

Industry

NEOS ROBOTICS

Tricept TR 600, TM 605, TM 805

Multi-purpose hybrid parallel robots

Industry

PATHFINDERS

HexVantage Machine

5-axis milling machines

Industry

PHYSIK INSTRUMENTE

M-850

6-axis positioning systems

Industry

PHYSIK INSTRUMENTE

F-206

6-axis positioning systems (wire-hexapod)

Industry

SIEMENS/GEODETIC

G500

With SINUMERIK 840 D NC control system

Industry

TOYODA MACHINE WORKS

HexaM Machine

5-axis milling machine

Industry

VERTEX ANTENNENTECHNIK

n/a

Antennas, telescopes

Industry

VIRTOGO

Cyber Air Base

6-DOF motion simulator

Industry

 

ORGANIZATION

AVAILABLE PARALLEL ROBOTS

REMARKS

TYPE

CAT

Tetrabot

Reconfigurable robotic mechanism

Research Organisation

CERT

Speed-R-Man, Cylindrical Robot, etc.

Flight dynamics and control system design

Research Organisation

INRIA

Active Wrist, Left Hand

Jean-Pierre Merlet's home page

Research Organisation

ITIA-CNR & CIMSI

ACROBAT

 

Research Organisation

LLNL

Octahedral Hexapod

Octahedral hexapod

Research Organisation

LME

LME Hexapod Machine

 

Research Organisation

LIRMM

DELTA, HEXA

François Pierrot's home page

Research Organisation

NIST

Ingersoll's Octahedral Hexapod

Simulation of hexapods

Research Organisation

NIST

Robocrane

 

Research Organisation

SANDIA

Hexel's Hexapod

Hexapod-related activities

Research Organisation

 

UNIVERSITIES USA

UNIVERSITY

RESEARCH UNIT

REMARKS

CALTECH

n/a

Singularity surfaces

CATHOLIC UNIV. OF AMERICA

Robotics And Control Lab.

Space applications

COLUMBIA UNIV.

Robotics Lab.

Surgery robot

FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIV.

Robotics Center

Self calibration

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV.

Robot Kin. and Motion Planning Lab.

Binary parallel robot

MICHIGAN TECHNOL. UNIV.

n/a

Machine tool design

MIT

Lab. for Manufact. and Productivity

Hexel's hexapod

NORTHWESTERN UNIV.

Advanced Manufacturing Lab.

Error analysis

NORTHWESTERN UNIV.

Lab. for Intelligent Mech. Systems

Surgery robot

UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE

Robotics & Automation Lab

Constraint manifold analysis

UNIV. OF FLORIDA

Center for Intell. Mach. and Robotics

Various research topics

UNIV. OF ILLINOIS, UC

Lab. for Large-Scale Flex. Automation

SMARTCUTS

UNIV. OF MARYLAND

Design Automation Lab.

Hexapod grinding robot

UNIV. OF MARYLAND

Intelligent Servosystems Lab

3-DOF parallel manipulator

UNIV. OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON

Automation & Robotics Res. Institute

Dynamically reconfigurable assembly system

UNIV. OF WASHINGTON

Control and Robotic Systems Lab

6-axis active vibration isolation system

UNIV. OF WYOMING

Hexapod Research Group

UW HEX

UNIV. OF IOWA

Center for Computer-Aided Design

Iowa Driving Simulator

 

 

 

UNIVERSITIES CANADA

QUEEN'S UNIV.

Robotics and Automation Lab.

Various research topics

UNIVERSITE LAVAL

Robotics Lab.

Various research topics

UNIV. OF VICTORIA

Space & Subsea Robotics Lab

HVRam mechanism

MCGILL UNIV.

Centre for Intelligent Machines

Parallel redundant wrist

UNIV. OF TORONTO

Computer Integrated Manufact. Lab.

Singularity analysis

 

 

 

UNIVERSITIES GERMANY

TU HAMBURG-HARBURG