Dr Ken Young's hands start to shake a touch when he demonstrates Warwick University's tricept robotic machining cell. It's not because he is nervous, but rather because it's the kind of thing that appeals to him in the same way that fast red cars appeal to many other people. The highly accurate tricept could be the Next Big Thing, says Young, who has yet to plumb the depths of its capabilities. Although its versatility is undisputed, most of the tricept robots currently in use are in the aerospace and automotive industries. "It's very new technology. Nobody knows what it can and cannot do, in all honesty. That's really what we are doing - trying to see how far we can push this technology," says Young, "to see what we can get out of it and what its limits are."
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