A robot control device controls a robot provided with a force detection device. The robot control device includes an extension slot having a connector to which an interface board to communicate with the force detection device can be connected. It is preferable that the extension slot is removable. It is also preferable that the robot control device has the interface board having a connector to be connected to the extension slot.

A controlling apparatus is provided. According to an example, the controlling apparatus comprises: an operating body configured to bear acting forces; a mechanical sensing apparatus arranged on a surface of the operating body and configured to sense the acting forces and convert the acting forces into electric signals; and a controlling module configured to determine a resultant force of the acting forces according to the electric signals and control a controlled object to move along a direction of the resultant force of the acting forces.

A robot includes a robot arm having at least one arm, from which an end effector is detachable, a force detection unit provided between the end effector and the arm, and an energizing member that energizes the end effector toward the force detection unit side. It is preferable that the energizing member is an elastic member having elasticity. Further, a connecting part that couples the robot arm and the end effector is provided, and it is preferable that the force detection unit is provided between the end effector and the connecting part.

A control system of a machine tool includes a hydraulic pressure adjuster. The hydraulic pressure adjuster includes a sequence program controller that includes components for adding a function of adjusting a hydrostatic pressure of a static pressure oil supplied to a hydrostatic pressure guide mechanism, which are a pressure setting unit, a constant acceleration motion controller, a workpiece-weight calculator and a supply state adjuster.

A sensor system for controlling operation of an escalator arranged on a landing plate at the exit of the escalator includes a plurality of sensors arranged over a landing area of the landing plate. Each sensor is disposed at predetermined intervals with respect to the width direction along the width between two balustrades and the length direction along the moving direction of the escalator, and is configured to detect a predetermined pressure so as to obtain a transition of ON/OFF states in response to a load presence.

An anchoring system for use with a device having a clean status indicator may include at least one first slide component having at least one slot and at least one second slide component disposed within the at least one slot configured to move in relation to the at least one first slide component along at least a first axis extending along a length of the at least one slot, a second axis extending along a width of the at least one slot, and a third axis extending perpendicular to the first axis and the second axis. At least one of the at least one first slide component and the at least one second slide component may be configured to be secured to at least one of the device and a rigid support structure immediately adjacent to the device to allow for a controlled degree of movement of the device along at least the first axis, the second axis, and the third axis.

A surgical robot including an imaging system comprising at least one camera, a processor in communication with the imaging system, a manipulation system in communication with the processor, and a visual display in communication with the processor. The processor is operable to calculate a mechanical property estimate for an area of an environment based on an environment model of tool-environment interaction data, create a composite image comprising a mechanical property map of the mechanical property estimate overlaid on an environment image from the at least one camera, and output the composite image on the visual display.

A method to ascertain a quality of a product formed by a subtractive manufacturing device from a workpiece includes: determining a deflection/test force relation for a deflection of the device; measuring an actually exerted machining force applied by the device to the workpiece; automatically determining a machining force reference for the actually exerted machining force; automatically evaluating whether the actually exerted machining force deviates from the machining force reference. If an actually exerted machining force deviates from the machining force reference, then the method uses the deflection/test force relation to automatically determine for the actually exerted machining force, at least one correction deflection of the device and automatically creating at least one corrected drive control signal to fully or partially reduce the correction deflection.

An apparatus including a computer processor, a robotic device, and a weight scale device, having a plurality of independent weight scales. The computer processor may be programmed to control the robotic device to cause a material located on the weight scale device to be evenly distributed over the plurality of independent weight scales so that each of the plurality of independent weight scales indicates the same weight within a tolerance. The robotic device may include a rake appendage having a plurality of tines, which may be controlled by the computer processor to move the material to cause the material to be evenly distributed over the plurality of independent weight scales. The robotic device may include a roller device having a roller which may be controlled by the computer processor to run over the material located on the weight scale device to thereby compress the material.

A gob forming device for forming a gob that is fed into a mold for molding a glass product after adjusting the gob to an optimum weight and shape, the gob forming device comprising: one or two cameras 71,72 configured to capture one or more images of a gob in the falling path of the gob, the gob being obtained by cutting molten glass extruded from a circular orifice 11 of a gob feeder 1; an image processor 70 configured to perform image processing to measure the weight of the gob and feature values of the gob based on the one or more 2-D images of the gob captured by the one or two cameras, the feature values defining the shape of the gob, the weight and the feature values being measured by approximating the shape of the gob's cross section in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction as a circle or ellipse and; drive mechanisms 40, 50, and 64 to 66 configured to individually drive respective adjustment mechanisms to adjust the gob to achieve a desired weight and shape; a storage device configured to store, as reference data, a standard weight of the gob and an optimum value of each of the feature values of the gob; and a control device 8 configured to drive the drive mechanisms 40, 50, and 64 to 66 so that the drive mechanisms operate to ensure that the difference between the weight of the gob measured by the image processor 70 and the corresponding reference data stored in the storage device is an acceptable value and the differences between the feature values of the gob measured by the image processor 70 and the corresponding reference data stored in the storage device are acceptable values.