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Whether industrial robots, service robots or humanoid robots, and whether featuring articulated arms, SCARA, gantry, delta, H-Bot or hexapod configuration, whether they are mobile or stationary: many robots use EtherCAT today. EtherCAT initially made inroads into robot research projects, for example, in 2004 in the BMBF project ‘PAPAS’ by DLR, Kuka, Trumpf Laser, Schunk and Lenze, in 2005 with mobile research robots at the Suncheon University in Korea as well as in 2007 in the University of Lund’s Java robot and in the Fraunhofer IPA Institute’s ‘Secur-O-bot’ surveillance robot. ...
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Martin Rostan: EtherCAT – the communication standard for robots