High-precision robots available in kit form

A doctoral student from EPFL's Laboratory of Robotics Systems has developed a concept for modular industrial robots, based on the technology of parallel robots, whose precision is expressed in nanometers. Its name is Legolas. It's as precise as the elf of the same name from The Lord of the Rings , and as modular as Lego bricks. This surprising association has been achieved by Murielle Richard in the context of her thesis, conducted in the Laboratory of Robotics Systems ( LSRO ) at EPFL. Her goal was to create an industrial robot that would be capable of a variable number of "degrees of freedom", according to the needs of its users. "Normally, the development time required for a high-precision robot is long - around two to three years - and expensive. For industry, for example in watchmaking, this is too long", explains Ms.