Work has completed on a £850,000 project to give the UK aerospace sector an advanced capability for high accuracy robotic machining. ‘The Flexible Robotic Machining in High Accuracy Applications’ project was launched by the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), with backing from the Aerospace Technology Initiative (ATI). AMRC is combining an existing robotic solution with expertise in CNC machine tool dynamics. “This will create the most accurate large volume machining robot in the world,” says Ben Morgan, who heads the AMRC’s Integrated Manufacturing Group.
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