Reviews Related to Architectures of Parallel Mechanisms

Kanuk Parallel Robot: A 4 DOF Robot for Material Handling

The review describes a 4-DOF parallel robot designed at Loria for material handling tasks. The degrees of freedom of the robot consists of the translations along three linearly independent axes and a rotation about one of those axes.

Manta Parallel Robot: A 4 DOF Robot for Material Handling

HANDLEX: The Handling Parallel Robot

The review describes a Stewart platform designed at the University of Applied Sciences FH Bochum (Germany). The parallel robot is made of low-cost off-the-shelf components and is aimed at material handling.

Orthoglide: A 3-Axis Parallel Machine Tool for High-Speed Machining

The review describes the Orthoglide – a new PKM based on the Delta robot principle and designed at IRCCYN (France). The parallel kinematic machine is isotropic in its nominal configuration.

ROBO 003: The Hidden Hexapod

This brief review describes the ROBO 003 – an innovative watch winder based on an intriguing 1‑DOF three-legged parallel robot.

The Deltapod: A New Parallel Robot for Flexible Fixturing Applications

This brief review describes the Deltapod, commercially known as the FlexPLP, which looks like a normal hexapod but is an original 3-DOF translational robot.

Last Update: November 15, 2007