Patent ID: 8078304

Claim:
An electronic device manufacturing system, comprising: a factory interface adapted to receive a substrate carrier; a robot disposed within the factory interface and adapted to operate in a first mode and a second mode, wherein, in the first mode, the robot is adapted to transfer a substrate between the substrate carrier and one or more tools, wherein, in the second mode, the robot is adapted to execute a process motion profile, and the process motion profile is a pre-defined path along which the substrate moves while one or more motion-dependent processes are performed on the substrate, the motion-dependent processes selected from the group of defect inspection, film characterization, laser annealing, laser ablation, laser scribing, electron beam curing, ultraviolet curing, heat curing, inkjet printing, die placement, die registration, die alignment, die manufacturing, component placement, component registration, component alignment, component manufacturing, packaging functions, and wherein one or more joints of the robot are locked during a moving portion of the process motion profile to restrict the robot only to motion commensurate with the motion-dependent process.