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Firms with possible support of robotics program
GM

Tom Mathews
G. de Tiberio
  director Manuf Development
Nils Muench, Technical Director, GM Research
Frank Caiati, Manuf Devel

user-friendly system to program robots, teach robots
  users who now use programmable controller; level of an electrician
IBM

Stanford will probably get an IBM robot
  condition: no taking apart hardware or software; no source code
  RS1; it comes without any interface.
  they will ask for a proposal.  What they want most is interfacing devices
  integrated systems, feeders, work with cad systems; assembly analysis
  when it comes time, say that we understand that there is a research version
  which has parallel interface, vision, etc.
  how do we repair sensors?  They usually break some.  They use guarded moves,
  stop if any sensor goes off; there is enough crosstalk to set off one of the
  sensors.
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