So that robots can really take it all apart

摘要

Research into disassembly processes could lead to autonomous robots coming into use in the UK remanufacturing industry. The EPSRC is providing £1,94m for the five-year project led by mechanical engineers at Birmingham University. The researchers aim to gain an understanding of disassembly processes before developing systems that can autonomously handle variabilities in a product. Prof Duc Pham, principal investigator, said: "In remanufacturing you need to take things apart as a first step. We want to understand how mechanically all the forces - the torques and so on - affect the success of the disassembly operation."