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From: gamin@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca (Martin Boyer)
Subject: Re: PUMA 560 manipulators
In-Reply-To: lees@cps.msu.edu's message of 17 Nov 1993 08:58:31 EST
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Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1993 12:27:01 GMT

>>>>> John Lees writes:

>We just took delivery of a (used) PUMA 560 in our lab. I'm now
>looking into what manipulator to get for it. We've heard that the
>pneumatic ones are quite noisy, but the electrical ones are quite
>expensive.

Do you mean "end effector"?  Don't worry, the PUMA makes much more
noise than any pneumatic gripper.  They just go "psssht" (:-)) when
they are activated.  The compressor is something else...

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Martin Boyer                            mboyer@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca
Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec    mboyer@ireq-robot.uucp
Varennes, QC, Canada   J3X 1S1
+1 514 652-8412
