Some past customers - a small selection only
| Various industries | |
| BOEING, Hawaii, USA | Satellite development | BRITISH TELECOM, Birmingham, England | Life testing card readers |
| CIBAVISION - Atlanta, GA, USA | Handling contact lens products |
| DEPT OF ENVIRONMENT, England | Lock testing (life testing) |
| EASTMAN CHEMICAL, TN, USA | Testing |
| FIAMM, Italy (3 systems) | Machine unloading |
| HEWLETT PACKARD, Corvallis, OR, USA | Loading glass substrates to m/c |
| JOHNSON MATTHEY, Royston, England | Handling samples |
| KEARFOTT GUIDANCE, Little Falls, NJ, USA | Cleaning guidance device |
| LOBOTECH, Switzerland. | Solids dosing |
| MEDICON HELLAS, Athens, Greece | Laboratory handling |
| POLK AUDIO, Baltimore, MD, USA (2 systems) | Sound measurement |
| RACAL MESL, Scotland | Dipping process |
| SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY, Oklahoma, USA | Sound measurement |
| SEMITOOL EUROPE (based Montana) | Cleanroom semiconductor handling |
| SONY AMERICA, San Diego, CA, USA | Life testing power cords |
| TRUTECH SYSTEMS, MI | Manufacturing |
| VG SEMICON (Fisons), England | Cleanroom handling |
| WATERFORD CRYSTAL, Ireland. | Flame polishing glass |
| Pharmaceutical | |
| AMERSHAM INTERNATIONAL, Amersham, England | Handling chemical samples |
| ASTRA-ZENECA, England | HTS |
| BAXTER NOVACOR, Berkely, CA, USA | Rotating artificial ventricles during drying process |
| FORENSIC SCIENCE SERVICE, Birmingham, England | DNA sequencing (6 systems) |
| PFIZER PHARMACEUTICALS, New Jersey, USA | Handling in production |
| GSK, Harlow, UK, Collegeville, PA, USA | HTS |
| SCHERING PLOUGH RESEARCH, Union, NJ, USA | Sample handling |
| VETINARY RESEARCH LABS, England | HTS |
| Nuclear | |
| British Nuclear Group | Swabbing radioactive waste container (2) |
| BRISTOL-MEYERS SQUIBB, New Brunswick, NJ, USA | Handling radiochemicals in glove box |
| HARWELL SCIENTIFICS, Harwell, England | Handling radioactive samples |
| NPL (National Physical Laboratory), Teddington, England (5 systems) | Handling radioactive samples. | Educational/research |
| NASA Goddard Space Research Center (3 robots) | Satellite development |
| MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE | Plant growth |
| BECKMAN INSTITUTE, USA | |
| DEFENSE RESEARCH AGENCY (MOD), Chertsey, England | Special project |
| LAWRENCE LIVERMORE LABORATORY, CA, USA | Water jet cutting |
| NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH, Maryland, USA | Neural research |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, NJ, USA | Neural research |
| POLYTECHNIC OF THE URALS, Sverdlovsk, Russia | Education |
| TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY DRESDEN, Dresden, Germany | Education |
| CARNEGIE MELLON, PA, USA | HTS |
| And many other UNIVERSITIES around the world | robotics |
We regret it is our firm policy not to give references. The ratio of new enquirers to existing users is too great
and would inconvenience our existing customers.
Some quotations from customers:
“The robot system has exceeded all our expectations”
- Racal Mesl.
“No, neither robot has given any trouble. They are both working perfectly”
- Radstone Electronics.
and then after another 5 years we called them and the robots were still in use, one for 10 years:
'The robots have worked flawlessly'
“We know of Z***** and *** systems that constantly give trouble. Ours works consistently night and day.”
- Xenova Pharmaceuticals.
“Arnold is still running all shifts with no problems. We never need to relearn positions.”
- Hewlett Packard.
“No, no problems, it’s working fine. We recently tried it with a laser aimed through the sensor block
and it was just as good (accuracy). So we have no problems with the (classified).”
- Kearfott Guidance.
“The quality is amazing (of the product). It’s a much better finish than we ever did manually.”
- Qualplast.
“This is the third robot we’ve bought for this job and the only one that could do it.
The *** is still in it’s packing case in the parking lot.”
- Signet Armorlite.
“It’s just part of the furniture! We forgot about it.”
- Fusion Meters.
found on the net: (anon)
"My favorite robot is from STRobotics.... Their stuff is designed on the Z8000, and runs
a language they call RoboForth. It's a pretty fair implementation of Forth,
and that is one of my all-time favorite programming languages."
Also found on the net: (anon)
"...not true. i had several weeks to play with a robot from england ('herman', we called him)
who ran on RoboForth. that was fun."