Epson Robots announces North American robot giveaway

SEPTEMBER 5--EPSON Robots (Carson, CA, USA; www.robots.epson.com) has announced the North American Robot Giveaway program. To celebrate the introduction of its Micro PowerDrive controller, EPSON Robots will be giving away a Micro PowerDrive controller with one of its E2 SCARA robots. The Micro PowerDrive gives users high-performance robots at lower costs.

The North American Robot Giveaway is open to all manufacturers in the USA and Canada (except Quebec). Details can be found on the Web: www.robots.epson.com/freerobot.htm?giveaway.

EPSON Robots has an installed base of more than 18,000 robots and a product line of hundreds of models of SCARA, Cartesian, and six-axis robots based on a common PC platform. EPSON Robots delivers robots for precision assembly and material-handling applications in the aerospace, appliance, automotive, biotechnology, consumer-product, electronics, food-processing, medical-device, pharmaceutical, plastics, semiconductor, and telecommunications industries.