SOUND FILMSTRIP IS AN AT-RISK MEDIA FORMAT. I am the only person on earth preserving American filmstrips. The media format is largely forgotten and very endangered. If you have any American filmstrips, or can rescue any filmstrips from a school, college, business, industry, or elsewhere, please contact me immediately at uncommon.ephemera@gmail.com. Don't know what a filmstrip is? Read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmstrip

I AM AN INDEPENDENT MEDIA PRESERVATIONIST. If you enjoy my work please consider making a donation toward my operating expenses. Visit https://uncommonephemera.org/donate for links to Patreon, GoFundMe, and more.

COPYRIGHT AND TAKEDOWN REQUESTS. If you hold rights to any material in this archive and wish to discuss its removal, please contact Uncommon Ephemera directly before filing a takedown request with any platform. A takedown removes material immediately and without discussion, and may count as a strike against the Uncommon Ephemera account. Platforms respond to accumulated strikes by removing the account entirely, which would result in the permanent loss of thousands of pieces of historically significant preserved media that have nothing to do with the material in dispute. Contact: uncommon.ephemera@gmail.com

FULLY RESTORED. This is a sound filmstrip that has been fully restored into the included video which properly simulates how it would have been presented originally.

PART OF A SET. This filmstrip is part of the set Robotics.

ORIGINAL SCANS AND AUDIO INGEST INCLUDED. The original frame scans and audio capture are included in this archive.

DONATED TO UNCOMMON EPHEMERA. This filmstrip was generously donated to Uncommon Ephemera for preservation by Devlin Maxan.

STAY IN TOUCH. Join my Discord for announcements on new releases and live streams, discussion with other people interested in media preservation, or if you can help in any way.

For more information about Uncommon Ephemera, filmstrips, my media preservation processes, file specifications, contact information, and attribution information, please see the included “Read Me.txt” file.

NOTES

While industrial robotics started in the 1950s, concurrent with pop culture's interest in humanoid automatons in television and movies, the former really reached critical mass in the 80s and the Library Film Center was there to capitalize. The filmstrip series Robotics from 1985 covers industrial robots in detail.

Operating Parameters of Robots dives into the various differences that matter when choosing or specifying an industrial robot. These various measurables, including accuracy, tooling at the end of the arm, repeatability, and performance limitations, must be specified correctly when implementing a robot to do a specific job. The filmstrip gives several real-world examples of robots performing various jobs, and how these parameters are important to doing the job correctly, safely, and with high accuracy.

The filmstrip also illustrates the importance of "teach pendants," a control surface an operator can use to manually control a robot's movements and record each move for stored program control. The filmstrip also explores some other programming processes, such as CAD systems that can simulate robot motions with a high degree of accuracy, allowing the robot to be programmed virtually using a model.

Operating Parameters of Robots is the third filmstrip in the series Robotics produced by the Library Filmstrip Center and distributed by Photocom in 1985. The catalog number is 5403.