Force control turns machining robots into universal tools Peter Fixell, Tomas Groth, Mats Isaksson, Hui Zhang, Jianjun Wang, Jianmin He, Martin Kohlmaier, Rainer Krappinger, Jingguo Ge ABB has written a new chapter in the book of robot applications. While in the past it had been a tedious and time-consuming effort to program a robot for delicate fine-tuning operations, robots can now learn how to best…