The present disclosure relates to a robot and a housing thereof. The housing includes a forearm shell, an upper arm shell and a chest shell. At least one of the forearm shell, the upper arm shell and the chest shell is a flexible shell. The flexible shell includes an elastic main body layer. According to the above technical solution, the robot housing provided by the present disclosure may reduce and even avoid limitations of the housing to motion ranges of joints of the robot, and also ensures attractive appearance.

A system for positioning a patient before, during or after a medical procedure can include an arm assembly and a surgical drape for use with the arm assembly. The surgical drape can be configured to be placed around a surgical site where an operative procedure is to be conducted. The surgical drape includes a transparent viewing window, multiple handle covers, and an expandable opening on the top side of the surgical drape. Additionally, the surgical drape may also include adhesive components on the bottom side of the drape that may be independently removed in order to affix the drape around a surgical site.

A quadruped robot body having a flexible buffer structure includes a housing having an accommodating cavity, a buffer connection portion capable of connecting to a fixed end of a joint unit being provided at at least one position on the housing. The buffer connection portion is provided with a connection hole for fixedly connecting to the joint unit. One or more strip-shaped holes are provided in a region where the buffer connection portion connects to the housing. Further disclosed is a quadruped robot. The strip-shaped hole is provided on the buffer connection portion, and under the action of an external force, the strip-shaped hole can deform slightly to generate a slight displacement between the hole wall and a surrounding region, thus achieving buffering of the external force. The present invention features a simple structure, low manufacturing costs, no need to reserve an additional mounting space, and a compact structure.

The system includes a robot interface disposed on a robot arm, and an end effector configured to selectively couple to the robot arm via the robot interface. The end effector includes an upper jaw, a lower jaw, and a pair of arms configured to carry a substrate. The upper jaw and the lower jaw are spaced apart in a first direction and biased together, and the pair of arms are spaced apart in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. When the end effector is coupled to the robot arm, the robot interface is disposed between the upper jaw and the lower jaw. To exchange the end effector, the upper jaw and the lower jaw can be separated to release the robot interface.

Disclosed herein are a biomimetic tactile sensor, a robotic skin including the same, and a preparation method therefor. The biomimetic tactile sensor includes a base layer on which a plurality of electrodes and a plurality of microphones are arranged to be distributed, a hydrogel layer disposed on the base layer, and a stimulus receiving layer disposed on the hydrogel layer, and the biomimetic tactile sensor senses a tactile stimulus accompanied by pressure, vibration, or both.

A humanoid robot (1) includes a heat discharge garment (5) that covers the humanoid robot (1), and an air blower provided in the humanoid robot (1) or the heat discharge garment (5) to blow external air into the humanoid robot (1) or the heat discharge garment (5). An air blowing flow path (101) is provided between the heat discharge garment (5) and an outer shell of the humanoid robot (1).

A humanoid robot includes: a body portion; a head portion; a left arm and a right arm that have ends connected to the left and right at an upper portion of the body portion; a left foot and a right foot that have ends connected to the left and right at a lower portion of the body portion; and a left running unit and a right running unit provided to the other ends of the left foot and the right foot. The left running unit has a left drive wheel on a front side of an advancing direction and a left follower wheel on a rear side in the advancing direction, the right running unit has a right drive wheel on a front side of the advancing direction, and a right follower wheel on a rear side in the advancing direction.

An interface mechanism is provided in a cover of an arm of a horizontal articulated robot and connects a wiring member inside the arm and a wiring member outside the horizontal articulated robot to each other. The interface mechanism includes a fixed member that is disposed inside the arm and that is fixed to a cover, and also includes a connecting member that is attached to the fixed member and to which the wiring member inside the arm and the wiring member outside the horizontal articulated robot are connected. The fixed member is fixed to an inner surface of the cover in a state where the fixed member abuts against the inner surface from below.

An apparatus for loading/unloading workpieces, including a furnace heating a workpiece, and a robot loading and/or unloading a workpiece into/from the furnace. The robot may include a manipulator linkage and a fork at an end of the manipulator linkage. The fork may have an upper side on which a workpiece is placed while being loaded into and/or unloaded from the furnace. The fork may include a parallel arrangement of fork elements, each fork element in the fork having a length and rectangular cross section perpendicular to the length. Each fork element may have a workpiece carrying surface on which a workpiece is placed and an opposite surface to the workpiece carrying surface. The fork element may include a heat insulator disposed on the workpiece carrying surface at least over an area where a workpiece is placed to equalize longitudinal thermal expansions in the workpiece carrying surface and the opposite surface.

A robotic assistant includes a wheeled base, a storage unit including drawers, a foldable arm connected to a top of the storage unit and including an end of arm tooling (EOAT) connected to a distal end of the foldable arm, an elevation mechanism positioned on the wheeled base and used to move the storage unit up and down, and a control system that receives command instructions. In response to the command instructions, the control system is configured to move the wheeled base, open or close the one or more drawers, actuate movement of the foldable arm and the EOAT to pick up and place external objects from/to a determined location, and control the storage unit to move up/down.