A robotic arm mounted camera system allows an end-user to begin using the camera for object recognition without involving a robotics specialist. Automated object model calibration is performed under conditions of variable robotic arm pose dependent feature recognition of an object. The user can then teach the system to perform tasks on the object using the calibrated model. The camera's body can have parallel top and bottom sides and adapted to be fastened to a robotic arm end and to an end effector with its image sensor and optics extending sideways in the body, and it can include an illumination source for lighting a field of view.

Systems, methods, and computer program products for programming a controller to control a process. A training module is trained to provide predicted responses of the process to control signals using a generic simulator to model the process. Once the training module has been trained, the controller is programmed to control the process by coupling the controller to the training module and using the training module to generate predicted responses of the process to the reception of control signals from the controller. As part of the programming process, one or more parameters of a control program resident on the controller may be adjusted to reduce errors between the responses predicted by the training module and the desired responses intended to be caused by the control signals.

To provide an industrial robot and a method of operating the same which are capable of appropriately handling, when an abnormal state occurs during an automatic operation of the robot, the abnormal state without significantly degrading the work efficiency. The industrial robot includes a robot main body (1) having a robot arm, a robot control device (7) configured to control operation of the robot main body (1) and an abnormal state detecting device (8) configured to detect abnormality in a work state of the robot main body (1). The robot control device (7) includes an automatic operation performing means (9) for controlling the operation of the robot main body (1) to perform an automatic operation based on a given operation program, and an automatic operation correcting means (10) for correcting the operation of the robot main body (1) in the automatic operation based on a manual control performed by an operator according to a detection result of the abnormal state detecting device (8).

There is provided a method for programming an industrial robot, where distributors and integrators can present accessories that run successfully at end users. Also the developer can define customized installation screens and program nodes for the end user. There is provided a software platform, where the developer can define customized installation screens and program nodes for the end user thereby extending an existing robot system with customized functionalities by still using the software platform available in the robot system. Hereby a robot developer can define customized installation screens and program nodes for the end user. These can, for example, encapsulate complex new robot programming concepts, or provide friendly hardware configuration interfaces.

A robot system includes a robot including a tactile sensor and a hand having the tactile sensor, a tactile information generator configured to generate tactile information defined by a pressure distribution based on pressures detected by a plurality of pressure sensors and spatial positions of the plurality of pressure sensors, and output the tactile information, a manipulator configured to make an operator sense the pressure distribution according to the tactile information outputted from the tactile information generator, and when the operator manipulates the manipulator, output manipulating information according to the manipulation, and a robot controller configured to control operation of the hand of the robot according to the manipulating information outputted from the manipulator.

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.

A robot system includes a robotic arm having an end effector configured to perform a work to a work object, a memory part storing information that causes the end effector to move as scheduled route information, a motion controller configured to operate the robotic arm by using the scheduled route information to move the end effector, a route correcting device configured to generate, by being manipulated, manipulating information to correct a route of the end effector during movement, a camera configured to image the work object, an image generator configured to generate a synthesized image by synthesizing a scheduled route of the end effector obtained from the scheduled route information with a captured image sent from the camera, and a monitor configured to display the synthesized image.

An information sharing system between a plurality of robot systems includes a plurality of robot systems, communicatably connected with each other through a network, and configured to be capable of presetting a given operation of a robot and repeating a correction of the operation, and a storage device, connected with the network and configured to store corrected information containing corrected operating information that is operating information for causing the robot to execute a given operation corrected in at least one of the robot systems. Each of the plurality of robot systems shares the corrected information stored in the storage device and operates the robot based on the sharing corrected information.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer-readable media storing executable instructions, for enhancing robot learning. In some implementations, a robot stores first embeddings generated using a first machine learning model, and the first embeddings include one or more first private embeddings that are not shared with other robots. The robot receives a second machine learning model from a server system over a communication network. The robot generates a second private embedding for each of the one or more first private embeddings using the second machine learning model. The robot adds the second private embeddings to the cache of the robot and removes the one or more first private embeddings from the cache of the robot.

In a remote control robot system including a plurality of slave arms, slave arm has a plurality of control modes of an automatic mode in which slave arm is operated based on a task program, a manual mode in which slave arm is operated based on an operator's operation received by a master device, and correctable automatic mode in which slave arm is operated based on task program while operation is sequentially corrected by the operator's operation received by master device. Operation sequence information includes an automatic part in which slave arm performs a work in the automatic mode, and a selected part in which slave arm performs a work in one selected from plurality of control modes, and the selected parts do not overlap with each other in time among the plurality of slave arms. Based on the operation sequence information, the plurality of slave arms are operated.