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ST Robotics is a twin company based in Cambridge, England, and Princeton, New Jersey, USA. The company designs and manufactures low-cost bench-top industrial robot arms and purpose built Cartesian robots. The company has no sales force and sells their robotic arm products purely through the Internet as "boxed robots". ==History== In 1981, David Sands formed the company Intelligent Artefacts which was based in Cambridge, England. One of its products was educational robot arms. The arms were programmed in the programming language BASIC and would run on any of the popular makes of computers of the time such as Apple (Apple II series), Acorn Electron, Atari, BBC Micro or the Commodore Pet. The robot competed with others in that market like the Armdroid. As the language Forth became available on these computers, Sands wrote the first version of RoboForth which enabled the robots to run and respond far faster. A version of RoboForth was also written for Armdroid. In 1982, Intelligent Artefacts was closed down and a new company formed, also in Cambridge, called Cyber Robotics who sold a redesigned arm known as the Cyber 310.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.anf.nildram.co.uk/beebcontrol/arms/cyber/index.html )〕 The Cyber 310 had a 5 degrees of freedom (DOF) ability. Hundreds of them were sold around the world between 1981 and 1987. The robot arm was adopted in 1987 by Mike Topping as the basis for the ''Handy 1'', a robotic helper for the severely disabled. Cyber Robotics was bought by the Bibby Corporation in 1982 and it was eventually closed due to lack of sales. During the period that Intelligent Artifacts was in operation, many inquiries were received for more serious and professional uses of robot arms for which the Cyber 310 was not suitable. This alerted Sands to the potential for manufacturing a bench–top robot arm series, some of which already existed, notably the Zymark. Sands Technology was formed in 1985 and in 1986 a shell company was created, Imagecroft Ltd. The company began to manufacture robot arms, such as the R12 Mk1, R15 and R16, which were used in applications from laboratory work in DNA processing to decommissioning nuclear reactors. In 1989, David Sands met Mathew Monforte in New Jersey and the pair decided to expand the company for the American market in 1991 and Sands Technology International was incorporated in New Jersey in 1992.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.samedanltd.com/?mod=magazine&id=12&page=article&issid=40&pid=1057&post )〕 The less personal pseudonym of ST Robotics was coined in 1997 under which both companies now trade. Also in 1992 Sands Technology formed one of the first joint venture companies with the USSR under Perestroika with the formation of Association Robot in Ekaterinburg, now dormant. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ST Robotics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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