Systems and methods are provided for reporting proximity in an assembly environment. One method includes equipping a technician with a first proximity detector that is wearable, disposing a second proximity detector at a robot that moves within a cell of the assembly environment, and directing the first proximity detector to provide a warning to the technician if a distance between the first proximity detector and the second proximity detector is less than a threshold.

A robotic gripping device is provided. The robotic gripping device includes a palm and a plurality of digits coupled to the palm. The robotic gripping device also includes a time-of-flight sensor arranged on the palm such that the time-of-flight sensor is configured to generate time-of-flight distance data in a direction between the plurality of digits. The robotic gripping device additionally includes an infrared camera, including an infrared illumination source, where the infrared camera is arranged on the palm such that the infrared camera is configured to generate grayscale image data in the direction between the plurality of digits.

The present invention relates to a laser rangefinder having common optical path comprising a housing assembly, a control and display assembly mounted in the housing assembly, a mounting device mounted in the housing assembly, an imaging module mounted on the mounting device and a laser module movably mounted on the mounting device longitudinally next to the imaging module, the laser module being electrically connected with the control and display assembly, the laser module comprising a laser emitting apparatus, a laser receiving apparatus and a reference point indicating apparatus, wherein a light path of the laser emitting apparatus and a light path of the laser receiving apparatus are configured to be independent to a light path of the reference point indicating apparatus, an optical axis of light path of the laser emitting apparatus shooting at the target object and an optical axis of the reference point indicating apparatus are collinear.

A robotic gripping device is provided. The robotic gripping device includes a palm and a plurality of digits coupled to the palm. The robotic gripping device also includes a time-of-flight sensor arranged on the palm such that the time-of-flight sensor is configured to generate time-of-flight distance data in a direction between the plurality of digits. The robotic gripping device additionally includes an infrared camera, including an infrared illumination source, where the infrared camera is arranged on the palm such that the infrared camera is configured to generate grayscale image data in the direction between the plurality of digits.

An estimation device includes a memory and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to acquire information regarding a target object. The at least one processor is configured to estimate information regarding a location and a posture of a gripper relating to where the gripper is able to grasp the target object. The estimation is based on an output of a neural model having as an input the information regarding the target object. The estimated information regarding the posture includes information capable of expressing a rotation angle around a plurality of axes.

Provided is a map generation system including a vehicle such as a robot and a remote control apparatus, wherein the vehicle includes a distance sensor configured to output object-distance data; and a processor configured to transmit to the remote control apparatus the object-distance data excluding a portion of data about object-distances which are shorter than a predetermined object-distance, and the remote control apparatus is configured to generate a map based on the object-distance data received from the processor.

Methods and apparatus for implementing a safety system for a mobile robot are described. The method comprises receiving first sensor data from one or more sensors, the first sensor data being captured at a first time, identifying, based on the first sensor data, a first unobserved portion of a safety field in an environment of a mobile robot, assigning, to each of a plurality of contiguous regions within the first unobserved portion of the safety field, an occupancy state, updating, at a second time after the first time, the occupancy state of one or more of the plurality of contiguous regions, and determining one or more operating parameters for the mobile robot, the one or more operating parameters based, at least in part, on the occupancy state of at least some regions of the plurality of contiguous regions at the second time.

It is recognized It is recognized herein that current approaches to robotic picking lack efficiency and capabilities. In particular, current approaches often do not properly or efficiently estimate the pose of bins, due to various technical challenges in doing so, which can impact grasp computations and overall performance of a given robot. The pose of the bin can be determined or estimated based on depth images. Such bin pose estimation can be performed during runtime of a given robot, such that grasping can be enhanced due to the bin pose estimations.

A computing device receives location information for a mobile robot. The computing device also receives location information for an entity in an environment of the mobile robot. The computing device determines a distance between the mobile robot and the entity in the environment of the mobile robot. The computing device determines one or more operating parameters for the mobile robot. The one or more operating parameters are based on the determined distance.

A robot controller able to automatically set an motion range for a robot, in which the robot and an obstacle, such as a peripheral device, do not interfere with each other. The robot controller includes a depth acquisition section acquiring a group of depth data representing depths from a predetermined portion of the robot to points on the surface of an object around the robot, a robot position acquisition section acquiring three-dimensional position information of the predetermined portion, a depth map generator generating depth map information including three-dimensional position information of the points with using the group of depth data and the three-dimensional position information, and an interference region setting section estimating the range occupied by the object from the depth map information and setting the range as an interference region.