Robot main body having robotic arm, remote control device including robotic arm operational instruction input part for operator to control by touching, to input operational instruction for robotic arm, and contactless action detecting part configured to detect contactless action including at least one given operation instructing action of operator, and control device communicably connected to remote control device and configured to control operation of robot main body, are provided. Control device includes memory part configured to store operational instruction content data defining an operation mode of robot main body corresponding to at least one operation instructing action, operational instruction content identifying module to identify operation mode of robot main body of the operation instructing action detected by contactless action detecting part based on operational instruction content data, and motion controlling module configured to control operation of robot main body based on operation mode identified by operational instruction content identifying module.

Plurality of robot main bodies a remote control device including contactless action detecting part configured to detect contactless action including at least one given operation instructing action by operator, and control device communicably connected to remote control device and configured to control operations of plurality of robot main bodies, are provided. Control device includes memory part configured to store operational instruction content data defining operation mode of robot main body corresponding to the at least one operation instructing action, operational instruction content identifying module configured to identify operation mode of robot main body corresponding to one of operation instructing action detected by contactless action detecting part based on operational instruction content data, and motion controlling module configured to control operation of at least one given robot main body among plurality of robot main bodies based on operation mode identified by operational instruction content identifying module.

A robot system includes a robot including a tactile sensor and a hand having the tactile sensor, a robot controller configured to control operation of the hand of the robot according to robot manipulating information, a manipulator, a tactile information processor configured to generate tactile information defined by a pressure distribution based on pressures detected by at least the plurality of pressure sensors and spatial positions of the plurality of pressure sensors, convert the tactile information into sensible tactile information that is sensible by the operator, and output the sensible tactile information, a sensible tactile information presenting part configured to present to the operator the sensible tactile information outputted from the tactile information processor.

An articulated arm system is disclosed that includes an articulated arm including an end effector, and a robotic arm control systems including at least one sensor for sensing at least one of the position, movement or acceleration of the articulated arm, and a main controller for providing computational control of the articulated arm, and an on-board controller for providing, responsive to the at least one sensor, a motion signal that directly controls at least a portion of the articulated arm.

A loading robot hand includes a first member, a second member, and a drive unit. The second member can hold an article between the first member and the second member. The drive unit moves the second member in a direction toward and away from the first member. The drive unit includes a moving base, a fluid cylinder, a pressure regulator, and a controller. The moving base is slidably movable by driving a drive source. The fluid cylinder is attached to the moving base. The pressure regulator can change operating pressure of the fluid cylinder. The controller controls the pressure regulator. A direction of expansion and contraction of the fluid cylinder is parallel to a direction of slide movement of the moving base. The second member is attached to a portion of the fluid cylinder that is movable relative to the moving base.

A robotic gripper including one or more fingers and at least one actuator for acting on the fingers in order to grip an object, the gripper including at least one sensor sensitive to a relative movement between the object manipulated by the gripper and the latter, this sensor delivering an output signal, a control system configured to execute at least one machine-learning algorithm trained to deliver, based on the one or more output signals generated by the one or more sensors, at least one slippage-detection score representative of the confidence of the algorithm in the presence of slippage, and to transmit control data to the actuators controlling the one or more fingers, the control data being generated so as to relate the strength of the forces applied by the one or more fingers to said score.