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OC Robotics wins snake-arm robot deal

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has contracted OC Robotics to design and build a snake-arm robot mounted on a mobile vehicle used to inspect complex pipework and structures within Candu reactors.

News from Engineeringtalk, 18 February 2009

Snake-arm robots see where endoscopes can't go

Companies can significantly reduce their H and S costs by using snake-arm robots to conduct confined spaces operations.

News from Engineeringtalk, 18 August 2008

Student wins engineering award

Alex Lazell is now the second placement student at OC Robotics to have won the Engineering Leadership Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering.

News from Engineeringtalk, 16 April 2007

Snake-arm robots to enable aerospace inspection

OC Robotics has completed build and initial testing of a demonstration snake-arm robot capable of sealing, swaging and inspection inside a mock-up of a rib bay.

News from Engineeringtalk, 8 November 2006

National exposure for snake arm robots

Managing Director and founder of OCRobotics, Rob Buckingham, appeared last week on The Material World on BBC Radio 4.

News from Engineeringtalk, 31 October 2006

US agency orders smaller snake arm robots

OCRobotics has won a contract to develop its smallest ever snake-arm robots.

News from Engineeringtalk, 29 August 2006

Award for student on industrial placement

OCRobotics' newest employee has won a highly prestigious Engineering Leadership Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering.

News from Engineeringtalk, 29 March 2006

Snake-arm robot could cut aircraft costs

Contract to develop snake-arm robot technology for possible aircraft manufacturing processes, including assembly tasks within wing boxes - an area currently inaccessible to automation.

News from Engineeringtalk, 27 February 2006

Snake-arm robots turn to aerospace coating

OCRobotics has recently completed a contract with Comau Pico investigating the use of snake-arm robots for aerospace coating applications.

News from Engineeringtalk, 20 December 2005

Snake-arm robot set for nuclear duties

OCRobotics has completed an initial contract with British Nuclear Group Sellafield to conduct a feasibility study and specify a design for a snake-arm robot for use at Sellafield.

News from Engineeringtalk, 20 December 2005

Robot reaches into awkward spaces

OCRobotics has been working with the UK MoD to introduce a new breed of robot capable of reaching into awkward spaces.

News from Engineeringtalk, 19 May 2005

Brakes put a stop to smaller motors

A range of specialist electromechanical brakes can be used on a variety of electric motors with rear shaft extensions.

News from Engineeringtalk, 18 March 2005

Servo controllers enable snake-arm robots

OCRobotics has developed a range of intelligent CAN-enabled servomotor amplifier controllers to meet requirements for distributed control of the large numbers of motors used in its snake-arm robots.

News from Engineeringtalk, 8 February 2005

Robots demonstrate new techniques in nuclear plant

OC Robotics' snake-arm robots have successfully fulfilled factory acceptance tests at Ringhals 1 nuclear reactor in Sweden.

News from Engineeringtalk, 10 November 2004

Snake-arm robots set for nuclear reactor duties

OCRobotics has supplied the first models of two types of snake-arm robot to Ringhals, a Swedish nuclear power utility.

News from Engineeringtalk, 11 August 2004

Applications grow for snake-arm robots

OCRobotics claims to have made a number of significant commercial breakthroughs in the manufacture of snake-arm robots.

News from Engineeringtalk, 2 May 2003

Steerable string - robots which work on the inside

It could soon be the year of the snake, at least in robotics terms, according to Rob Buckingham, Managing Director of OCRobotics.

News from Engineeringtalk, 22 November 2002

F11-iP motor maintains 40m/s optimum cutting speed

Parker Hannifin, the provider of motion and control technologies, has developed a hydraulic saw motor that automatically maintains an optimum cutting speed of 40m/s for 35 per cent faster cutting.
Schaeffler launches enhanced ball roller range

The Schaeffler Group has launched a complete family of ball roller bearings, which offers reduced friction and allows bearing mass and width to be decreased by 20 per cent.