A robot system and a method for driving a robot capable of moving the position of the center of gravity of the robot while minimizing the increase in the footprint thereof are provided. A robot system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a robot. The robot includes a movable moving part, an upper body part disposed above the moving part, and a driving mechanism for tilting the upper body part and moving a lower end of the upper body part in a direction in which the upper body part is tilted.

The present concepts relate to haptic controllers. In one example the haptic controller can include first and second capstans rotationally secured to a base and an energy storage mechanism connected between the first and second capstans. The example haptic controller can also include a user engagement assembly secured to the first capstan and a controller configured to control rotational forces imparted on the user engagement assembly by controlling rotational friction experienced by the first and second capstans.

A miniature parallel robot and a flat design manufacturing method, relating to the field of robots. A direction perpendicular to a fixed platform is used as a longitudinal direction and a direction parallel to the fixed platform is used as a transverse direction; the overall structure of a miniature parallel robot to be manufactured is divided in both the longitudinal direction and the transverse direction; then linkage units obtained by the division are manufactured on the basis of a flat machining process; and finally, the linkage units are recombined by re-assembly to obtain a final miniature parallel robot. The present invention simplifies the design process of the miniature parallel robot, and can be conveniently applied to different complex parallel robots (having more than three branches). Additionally, the miniature parallel robot designed and manufactured by means of the method has high precision, high rigidity, and high dynamic performance.