dSPACE NEWS 1/2007 20 1/2007 * dSPACE GmbH * Technologiepark * D-33100 Paderborn * Germany * info@dspace.de * www.dspace.de The Robot’s Net Engineers and mathematicians in the Mechatronics department at the University of Duisburg- Essen in Germany have for some years now been working on a new, innovative type of robot. With inspiration from spiders’ webs and the enormous load-bearing capacity of modern high-tech cables, future robots will use cables to get things moving in numerous application areas. A dSPACE system based on a DS1005 PPC Board provides powerful, reliable control. In many industrial applications, a robot’s payload is all but negligible in comparison with its own mass. This means that when the payload is transported, by far the greatest proportion of energ

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