The creative process ranging from the development of the concept of a complex industrial manipulator through design works, simulation and calculation to the implementation of a finished product is a “mammoth” task. Designers’ intentions and users’ expectations are confronted with material and equipment-related limitations. Because of the usually special and unique nature of such devices, tests relating to them are not the subject of complex standards and detailed description available in various reference publications but are primarily based on manufacturers’ own procedures. The article discusses the verification of a newly developed manipulator design (L-type positioner), the prototype of which was subjected to extensive movement-related and technological tests. The study was developed within a research work concerning new types of machines developed at PPU “ZAP Robotyka” in Ostrów Wielkopolski in collaboration with the Department of Welding Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology.

doi: 10.17729/ebis.2022.4/8