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Future developments also include the possibility to interface the robot welding
cells directly from advanced 3D CAD packages, which will enable on-line
simulation and testing, also being able to generate complete welding programs
fully ready for production.

Most of these developments will result from R&D projects done in universities,
research institutes and companies, or in cooperation between academia and
industry, resulting in technical papers and new products. This subject is perhaps
one of the most interesting cases of industry-academia cooperation since most of
the developments require scientific, technical and operational advances which
require expertise from both worlds.

Robotic welding is therefore an exciting engineering and scientific challenge that
the interested reader can also follow by checking updates, links to leading
institutions and journals, references to selected scientific papers and technical
articles, including the software used in this book, along with pictures, videos, etc.,
from

http://robotics.dem.uc.pt/welding_robots

The authors of the “Welding Robots” book will keep this site up-to-date.

J. Norberto Pires
Altino Loureiro
Gunnar Bolmsjö