An omni-bearing intelligent nursing system and method for a high-infectious isolation ward, including: a nursing robot, including a robot body and a controller; a plurality of collectors, arranged in the isolation ward and used for detecting the physiological index of the user and transmitting the physiological index to a remote control system; a communication network, in a star topology structure and including a plurality of communication modules, and configured to realize the communication of each the nursing robot, the collector and the remote control system; and the remote control system, receiving the information of the collector, performing feature extraction on the collect multi-element physiological signals, combining the basic information of the user, perform learning by a decision tree model, dynamically adjusting the corresponding nursing level, and sending an instruction to the corresponding nursing robot.

A parallel-type gripper according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a pair of jaws that are opposite to each other; and a parallel-type driving module in which the pair of jaws are movably connected in a horizontal direction such that they approach or move away from each other, and moving the pair of jaws in the horizontal direction so that the pair of jaws grip an object.

Waveguides, such as light guides, made entirely of elastomeric material or with indents on an outer surface are disclosed. These improved waveguides can be used in sensors, soft robotics, or displays. For example, the waveguides can be used in a strain sensor, a curvature sensor, or a force sensor. In an instance, the waveguide can be used in a hand prosthetic. Sensors that use the disclosed waveguides and methods of manufacturing waveguides also are disclosed.

Anthropomorphic hand comprising: a palm; a metacarpus; a thumb; four aligned fingers constrained to said palm, each comprising a proximal phalanx, a middle phalanx and a distal phalanx; a motor; a plurality of differential stages which transmit motion from said motor to said aligned fingers and to said thumb: a first stage whose planet carrier is moved by said motor and whose sun gears move planet carriers of a second and a fifth stage, sun gears of the second and fifth stages being integral to the planet carriers of a third and a fourth stage, whose sun gears move four gears having axes coincident with the axes of rotation between the aligned fingers and the palm; sun gears of the fifth stage being configured to rotate said metacarpus and a gear having axis coincident with the axis of rotation between the proximal phalanx of the thumb and the metacarpus.

A robot includes a robot arm including an arm to which an end effector is connected, in which the arm and the end effector are formed therein with an ingredient channel through which ingredients pass. The ingredient channel includes a first channel having an ingredient inlet into which the ingredients are introduced and extending from the ingredient inlet toward the end effector; and a second channel having an ingredient outlet provided in the end effector and positioned after the first channel in an ingredient transfer direction to guide the ingredients at a different speed from a speed of the first channel.

[Problem] Provided is a link mechanism capable of moving a tip end part substantially straight by using a simpler structure. [Solution] A link mechanism including a first parallel link mechanism having a fixed link and an intermediate link parallel to each other, and a pair of side links parallel to each other, a second parallel link mechanism having a fixed link and an intermediate link parallel to each other, and a pair of side links parallel to each other, in which the fixed link is connected to the intermediate link of the first parallel link mechanism, a fixed structure that is formed including the intermediate link of the first parallel link mechanism and the fixed link of the second parallel link mechanism, and a coupling link that couples one of the side links of the first parallel link mechanism and one of the side links of the second parallel link mechanism.

This disclosure relates to a technology for grasping an object while adjusting a grasping force according to stiffness of the object measured by a tactile sensor module, especially to a robot-hand, which includes a tactile sensor module for measuring a normal force applied when grasping an object, a phalange sensor module having an actuator to generate a driving force and configured to measure a rotational displacement of a motor, and a hand back control unit for operating the actuator by generating a desired displacement signal to control a grasping force so that a grasping motion is stably and accurately achieved by applying a minimum grasping force to soft object with no sliding and minimized deformation, wherein the desired displacement signal is generated based on stiffness which is calculated from the normal force data and the rotational displacement data.

A robot gripper including: a base section; a first finger connected to the base section by a base section joint and n phalanxes; a second finger connected to the base section by a base section joint and n+m phalanxes, each phalanx of the second finger being connected to an adjacent phalanx by a phalanx joint and the first and second fingers being opposable to one other; wherein n and m are positive integers.

The innovation is a replica of hands to massage and bring comfort and relaxation; and largely replace the need for a masseuse or masseur. Features are incorporated into the innovation include being strong, agile, and light.

A robot hand includes: a first link; a first fixed pulley and a second fixed pulley, respectively provided at a proximal end pivot part of the first link and rotatable around a first axis; a second link, supported at an intermediate pivot part by the first link to be rotatable around a second axis; a lever link, supported by the proximal end pivot part of the first link to be rotatable around the first axis; a lever pulley, supported by the lever link; a hanging cable, hung on the first fixed pulley, the lever pulley, and the second fixed pulley; a conversion mechanism, connecting the lever link and the second link, and converting rotation of the lever link into rotation of the second link; and a second link driving mechanism, rotating the lever link around the first axis by pulling the hanging cable.