A flexible driver, a robot joint, a robot and an exoskeleton robot, the transmission mechanism including an active rotating member, a driven rotating member and a rope, which form a rope drive relationship; wherein, the rope is tightly wound around rotating surfaces of the active rotating member and the driven rotating member, and a rotational central axis of the active rotating member is perpendicular to a rotational central axis of the driven rotating member. An output end of the driving mechanism is connected to the active rotating member, to drive rotation of the active rotating member. The output mechanism includes a flexible driving part, and an output part which is used for connecting to an external actuator. The driven rotating member drives rotation of the output part through the flexible driving part. The flexible driver drives flexibly the actuator through a compact structure as well as reliable and high-efficient transmission.

A portable dry chemical delivery robot comprised of a cart, a hoist mounted to the top brace; a moveable hopper with a flared inlet tapering to an outlet and connected to the hoist and contained within the cart, a screw conveyor connected to the outlet of the moveable hopper, a motor with transmission connected to the screw conveyor with a remote power supply, a flow controller connected to the motor for regulating operation of the screw conveyor, the flow controller being in communication with a network for providing both local and remote control of the screw conveyor from at least one client device connected to the network.

Disclosed is a cable-driven parallel robot capable of changing a workspace, in which the cable-driven parallel robot is provided with an end effector having a plurality of modules that can efficiently move to upper and side parts of an object without interference. Module-direction changing standby stations are provided on each of opposing sides of an upper frame such that the modules of the end effector are coupled to the module-direction changing standby station for direction change standby, so that the modules can efficiently move to upper and side parts of the workspace without interference, thereby maximizing work efficiency. To this end, there is provided a cable-driven parallel robot including: an installation frame, and upper and side frames; a plurality of driving units; a plurality of cables; the module-direction changing standby station; and an end effector provided with a plurality of modules.

An automated mobile paint robot, according to particular embodiments, comprises: (1) a wheeled base; (2) at least one paint sprayer; (3) at least one pump; (4) a vision system; (5) a GPS navigation system; and (5) a computer controller configured to: (A) generate a room painting plan using one or more inputs from the GPS navigation system, vision system, etc.; (B) control movement of the automated mobile paint robot across a support surface: (C) use the vision system to position the wheeled base in a suitable position from which to paint a desired area using the at least one paint sprayer; and (D) use the at least one pump to activate the at least one paint sprayer to paint a swath (e.g., swatch) of paint from the suitable position.

A system adapted for supporting workflow in a three-dimensional space which provides, among other things, hands-free control and adjustment of lighting within the three-dimensional space. The system of the present invention is also adapted for delivering, tracking, and retrieving tools in the three-dimensional space. The system of the present invention includes various subsystems, which are referred to herein as modules, that both act independently and co-dependently, as will be described in greater detail below, in conjunction with a central control computer module. The modules consist, in an exemplary embodiment, of the cable robot module, the central computer module, the imaging module, the illumination module, and the object manipulator module.

The cable-driven robot (100) comprises: a base structure (1); a plurality of cables (C; C1); a movable element (EM) which is maintained suspended by means of the plurality of cables (C; C1); a movement system (2) for moving the cables (C; C1), and thus for moving the movable operating element (EM) in space, comprising a plurality of winding elements (4) of the cables (C; C1) which are activatable in rotation for winding/unwinding the cables (C, C1). At least a cable (C1) of the plurality of cables (C; C1) is realised in such a way as to comprise a central core (5) and an outer cladding jacket (6). The central core (5) is made of a conductive material so as to enable the transmission of electrical current and/or a command signal to an end of the cable (C1) connected to the movable element (EM), while the outer cladding jacket (6) is made of a braided synthetic material so as provide the cable (C1) with resistance to traction and flexion loads.

Embodiments of positioning systems and methods are disclosed herein. Embodiments of such positioning systems may include a hierarchy of positioning systems. Each of the positioning systems in the hierarchy may be adapted to move each positioning system lower in the hierarchy along with one or more end-effectors. A control system may control the positioning systems of the hierarchy using a control method comprising a coarse step, a refinement step, or an adaptive step.

Provided is a movable electro-hydraulic composite drive spraying robot with a large working space, comprising movable bases, there being a plurality of movable bases cooperatively arranged for bearing a drive rope adjustment module, profile supporting columns in the driving rope adjusting module respectively being fixed on the movable bases, the plurality of movable bases encircling an operating space, a adjustable auxiliary motion platform that is movable being erected in the operating space, a rotary motion platform being arranged below the adjustable auxiliary motion platform, the adjustable auxiliary motion platform and the rotary motion platform being connected by means of a hydraulic push rod, the bottom end surface of the rotary motion platform being provided with a spray gun, and a balance mechanism and a fixed support mechanism for balancing the traction force of the rope and maintaining the balance of the mechanism also being mounted on the movable bases.

The invention relates to a cable robot for creating a structure or manipulating a workpiece, comprising a working head which is suspended on a support structure having at least three support columns by a system of cables having at least three control cables, wherein cable winches are provided for adjusting the control cables relative to the support structure and/or relative to the working head, and they can be actuated by an electronic control device for moving the working head, wherein the support columns of the support structure are luffingly and/or telescopically arranged on a revolving stage, which has a ballast weight for absorbing a tilting moment introduced into the respective support column by the system of cables and which is arranged on an undercarriage such that it can rotate about an upright revolving stage axis, said undercarriage having a chassis and being configured such that it can move with the revolving stage and the downwardly luffing and/or retracted support column.

The invention relates to a cable-driven parallel robot (1) comprising: a movable platform (10) intended to be suspended by cables (20), each of the cables (20) having one cable strand (21) configured to be tensioned between a first strand (21) end (211) connected to the movable platform (10) and a second strand (21) end (212) connected to a structure (30) fixed in space; and winding assemblies (40), each winding assembly (40) being connected to a pair (20) of associated cables (20) from among the cables (20) and being configured to synchronously wind the pair (20) of associated cables (20); the cable-driven parallel robot (1) being characterized in that when the platform (10) occupies a reference orientation relative to the vertical (Z), the first strand (21) ends (211) of the cables (20) in a single pair (20) of cables (20) are vertically (d1) and horizontally offset (d1) from one another.