A manipulator system having a positioner having a primary rail, a first coupling linkage, and a second coupling linkage. The first coupling linkage couples the primary rail to a base and positions the primary rail along a first plane. The system has another positioner having a secondary rail, a third coupling linkage, and a fourth coupling linkage. The third coupling linkage couples the secondary rail to the base and positions the secondary rail along a second plane which is parallel to the first plane. A common link couples to the primary and secondary rails via linkages. Each of the second and fourth coupling linkages includes a joint for linear motion along the respective rail, and a revolute joint for relative pivoting between the respective rail and the common link. A position and orientation of the common link are adjustable by the joints and revolute joints.

A bi-spin multi joint robot comprises an upper arm, a lower arm protruding forward and a wrist. The lower arm, which connects to the upper arm, is located at the right side of the upper arm. The wrist, which connects to the lower arm, is located at the right side of the tail end of the lower arm. In detail, the lower arm not only connects to the upper arm through the first transverse spindle but also connects to the wrist through the second transverse spindle. The upper arm is provided with a clearance space at the right side in order to enable the lower arm to rotate around the first transverse spindle in the clearance space, the first transverse spindle is assembled at the tail end of the upper arm, and the second transverse spindle is assembled at the tail end of the lower arm.

Provided is a robot arm that is provided with mounting interface portions at both ends of a long resin arm body. Each of the mounting interface portions is provided with: a connecting section that is formed of resin and that is connected to the arm body; and a metal member that is embedded in the resin, which forms the connecting section, and that forms a mounting surface. The metal member is provided with a through-hole that penetrates therethrough in the plate-thickness direction and through which a mounting screw passes, and is embedded in the resin while exposing the mounting surface and a seating surface, for the mounting screw, around the through-hole, the seating surface being located at the opposite side from the mounting surface.

The arm structure of a robot includes a first motor and a second motor attached to an arm member, a first bearing attached to the arm member, an arm member supported on the arm member by the first bearing, a first gear rotating together with the first bearing, a first motor transmission gear transmitting rotation force of the first motor to the first gear, a second bearing attached to the arm member and having a center axis perpendicular to a center axis of the first bearing, a rotary member supported on the arm member by the second bearing and rotatable relative to the arm member, a second gear attached to the rotary member, and a second motor transmission gear transmitting rotation force of the second motor to the second gear to make the rotary member rotate.

A joint device according to one aspect of the present disclosure is provided with an output shaft pivotally supported by a first link and connected to a second link, a rotary drive source provided in the first link, a first transmission mechanism that transmits the rotational force of the rotary drive source to the output shaft, a braking shaft provided in the first link, a second transmission mechanism that transmits the rotation of the output shaft to the braking shaft separately and independently from the first transmission mechanism, and a brake that brakes the rotation of the braking shaft.

A robot that includes a first shaft unit in which a first motor drives a second member relative to a first member; a second shaft unit in which a second motor drives a fourth member relative to a third member; and a securing member that is provided in a detachable manner between the second member and the third member and that integrally secures the second member and the third member to each other.

A robot including a base having a flat mounting surface section to be set on an installation surface by a fixing part, and also including a movable unit that is movable relative to the base. The base includes a tip-over prevention member that is disposed in a switchable manner between a state where the tip-over prevention member at least protrudes forward from the mounting surface section in a moving direction when a relocating process is performed and a state where the tip-over prevention member does not protrude forward from the mounting surface section.

A robot is provided which has: a first arm portion to which an end effector is attached, a second arm portion configured to support, at a tip portion thereof, the first arm portion swingably about a first axis, a third arm portion configured to support a base end portion of the second arm portion rotatably about a second axis orthogonal to the first axis, a tube arranged from the base end portion side toward the tip portion side of the second arm portion and connected to the end effector; and a first recess portion and a second recess portion, which are formed along an arrangement direction of the tube between the base end portion and the tip portion on one side and the other side in a direction orthogonal to both of the first and second axes, respectively.

A bi-spin multi-joint robot comprises an upper arm, a lower arm protruding forward and a wrist. The lower arm, which connects to the upper arm, is located at the right side of the upper arm. The wrist, which connects to the lower arm, is located at the right side of the tail end of the lower arm. In detail, the lower arm not only connects to the upper arm through the first transverse spindle but also connects to the wrist through the second transverse spindle. The upper arm is provided with a clearance space at the right side in order to enable the lower arm to rotate around the first transverse spindle in the clearance space, the first transverse spindle is assembled at the tail end of the upper arm, and the second transverse spindle is assembled at the tail end of the lower arm.

Provided is a robot arm that is provided with mounting interface portions at both ends of a long resin arm body. Each of the mounting interface portions is provided with: a connecting section that is formed of resin and that is connected to the arm body; and a metal member that is embedded in the resin, which forms the connecting section, and that forms a mounting surface. The metal member is provided with a through-hole that penetrates therethrough in the plate-thickness direction and through which a mounting screw passes, and is embedded in the resin while exposing the mounting surface and a seating surface, for the mounting screw, around the through-hole, the seating surface being located at the opposite side from the mounting surface.