A bent tubing automation tooling apparatus having a body component made of a rigid piece of material to connect an automation tooling machine to a work-piece manipulating implement, allowing for precision tooling with decreased parts and decreased setup, service, and tuning time to prepare the automation tooling machine for production. The body component may be a single monolithic body that is selectively movable between an operational position and an access position to provide for safer servicing of the automation tooling machine and components by allowing a technician to service the equipment from a safety zone instead of entering a dangerous area of the machine. The bent tubing apparatus provides fine tuning and quick adjustments to positional characteristics of the apparatus to increase precision of the automation tooling process while decreasing service time of the automation tooling machine and components.

A robot includes a robot main body including a base and a robot arm, a drive unit that drives the robot arm, and a wiring electrically connected to the drive unit, in which the robot arm includes a casing including a main body and a cover detachably connected to the main body, the drive unit includes a first pulley, a second pulley having a hollow hole, a belt connecting the first pulley and the second pulley, and a motor that generates a driving force for driving the robot arm and rotates the first pulley or the second pulley by the driving force, the wiring includes an insertion area inserted through the hollow hole of the second pulley and an intersection area intersecting with the belt as seen in a direction along a rotation axis of the second pulley.

Movement amplifying actuation device (100) comprising at least two piezoelectric beams (101, 102, 103), one beam (101) being attached at a fixed point (111), and at least one hinge (131, 132) connecting a first beam (101, 102) and a second beam (102, 103) between them. Each hinge comprises: a first flexible portion connected to the first beam, a second flexible portion connected to the second beam, a first rigid portion connecting the first and second flexible portions, a second rigid portion capable of being positioned against a fixed point (112, 113), and third flexible portion connecting the second beam to the second rigid portion at a pivot point of said second beam such that the assembly formed by the second rigid portion and the second beam forms a lever around said pivot point. Said flexible and rigid portions form a single piece.

Provided is a method for producing an arm-like structure in which the arm-like structure is produced by: forming an arm precursor member having an external shape of the arm-like structure by, in a state in which a die is closed with a metal pipe member being disposed in a cavity thereof, pressurizing the pipe member with liquid supplied to an inside thereof to cause an external surface of the thus expanded pipe member to be pressed against an inner surface of the cavity; and forming a flange portion to be attached to a driven body by machining at least an end of the formed arm precursor member.

A robot includes a base plate rotatable around a rotation axis, a first arm connected to the base plate at a first axis which is perpendicular to the rotation axis and around which the first arm is rotatable, a second arm connected to the first arm at a second axis which is parallel to the first axis and around which the second arm is rotatable, a third arm connected to the second arm at a third axis which is parallel to the first axis and around which the third arm is rotatable, a turnable link connected to the third arm at a fourth axis which is perpendicular to the third axis and around which the turnable link is rotatable, a distal-end swingable portion connected to the turnable link at a fifth axis which is perpendicular to the fourth axis and around which the distal-end swingable portion is rotatable, a distal end connected to the distal-end swingable portion at a sixth axis which is perpendicular to the fifth axis and around which the distal end is rotatable, and a welder connected to the distal end.

A gripping tool includes at least one linear guide coupled to a mount and extending along a central axis oriented along a first direction. At least one carriage coupled to the linear guide is translatable relative to the mount along the first direction. A first plurality of arms are rotatably coupled to the mount. A second plurality of arms are rotatably coupled to the carriage. The tool includes bodies carrying suction cups. Each body: defines an axis, is rotatably connected to at least one of each of the first and second pluralities of arms, and combines with the respective at least one of the first plurality of arms, the at least one of the second plurality of arms, and the at least one carriage to define a linkage allowing the body to move relative to the mount along the first and a perpendicular radial direction while the central and body axes remain parallel.

A robot apparatus may include a first arm assembly configured to rotate about a first rotational axis. The first arm assembly may include a first end effector and a second end effector spaced by a first end effector pitch. A second arm assembly may be configured to rotate about the first rotational axis. The second arm assembly may include a third end effector and a fourth end effector spaced by a second end effector pitch, wherein the second end effector pitch is different than the first end effector pitch. Other apparatus, electronic device processing systems, and methods are disclosed.

A robot includes a first arm rotatable around a first axis, a second arm connected to the first arm at a second axis which is parallel to the first axis and around which the second arm is rotatable, a third arm connected to the second arm at a third axis which is parallel to the first axis and around which the third arm is rotatable, a distal-end swingable portion rotatably connected to the third arm, a distal end rotatably connected to the distal-end swingable portion, a fourth actuator configured to rotate the distal-end swingable portion and including a first motor having a first motor rotation axis, and a fifth actuator configured to rotate the distal end and including a second motor having a second motor rotation axis that is parallel to the first motor rotation axis.

A robot including: two link members with longitudinal axes that are coupled such that the link members are able to relatively rotate about an axial line; and a sensor that detects a force around the axial line acting between the link members due to an object pinched between the link members, in which the robot has such a shape that a width dimension in a direction along a plane of a cross-sectional surface of at least one of the link members, which perpendicularly intersects the axial line, on at least one sides from the longitudinal axes that intersect the axial line continuously spread from at least midway positions of the at least one of the link members in the direction of the longitudinal axes toward the axial line, respectively.

An industrial robot includes a lower arm portion including: a pair of proximal-end-side support parts; a pair of distal-end-side support parts; and a housing which integrally supports the proximal-end-side support parts and the distal-end-side support parts. The housing houses a first drive motor, a second drive motor, a first power transmission mechanism, a second power transmission mechanism, and a cable bundle. In the housing, the first power transmission mechanism and the second power transmission mechanism are disposed on an axial end side of either a first joint shaft or a second joint shaft, and the cable bundle is disposed on an axial end side of the other joint shaft.