Embodiments of the disclosure provide a robot control method, apparatus and device, a computer storage medium and a computer program product and relate to the technical field of artificial intelligence. The method includes: acquiring environment interaction data and an actual target value, indicating a target that is actually reached by executing an action corresponding to action data in the environment interaction data; determining a return value after executing the action according to state data, action data and the actual target value at the first time of two adjacent times; updating a return value in the environment interaction data by using the return value after executing the action; training an agent corresponding to a robot control network by using the updated environment interaction data, and controlling the action of a target robot by using the trained agent.

A technique for actuating a robotic apparatus is disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the technique may be realized as an apparatus for providing controlled movement of a robotic appendage, comprising a digit, wherein the digit comprises a first joint and a second joint, and an actuator configured to control a degree of freedom of the digit. The actuator causes the first joint to bend at a first rate from a first position to a second position and the second joint to bend at a second rate from a third position to a fourth position. The first rate is faster than the second rate.

Implementations are directed to generating simulated training examples for training of a machine learning model, training the machine learning model based at least in part on the simulated training examples, and/or using the trained machine learning model in control of at least one real-world physical robot. Implementations are additionally or alternatively directed to performing one or more iterations of quantifying a “reality gap” for a robotic simulator and adapting parameter(s) for the robotic simulator based on the determined reality gap. The robotic simulator with the adapted parameter(s) can further be utilized to generate simulated training examples when the reality gap of one or more iterations satisfies one or more criteria.

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for concentric suction cup tools with parallel pistons. In one embodiment, an example picking assembly may include a first piston subassembly with a first air cylinder, a first sliding rail that slides relative to the first air cylinder, and a first suction cup. The example picking assembly may include a second piston subassembly comprising a second air cylinder, a second sliding rail that slides relative to the second air cylinder, and a second suction cup, where the first and second piston subassemblies may be configured to independently actuate from a retracted position to an extended position. The example picking assembly may include a first guide plate with a first aperture for the first piston subassembly and a second aperture for the second piston subassembly, a shell that forms a housing for the picking assembly, and an airflow coupler.

Provided is a device, comprising: a barrier configured to impeded or prevent particles shed by a robot in a first volume of space from entering a second volume of space in which the robot manipulates a workpiece; and a robot having three or more degrees of freedom, the robot comprising: a first portion disposed on a first side of the barrier in the first volume, the first portion comprising an actuator of the robot, the actuator being configured to drive movement of the robot to manipulate the workpiece; and a second portion disposed on a second side of the barrier in the second volume, the second portion comprising an end-effector of the robot by which the robot makes contact with the workpiece.

Provided is a liquid supply device including: a plug having a plug side liquid channel; and a socket having a socket side liquid channel. The plug has a groove having a fixing groove, the socket has a body having the socket side liquid channel, a gripping unit gripped by a robot, and a sleeve member configured to adjust a position of the body relative to the gripping unit, the tip of the body runs annularly about the socket axis and has lock balls, and the sleeve member switches a state between a connected state where the lock balls are secured in the fixing groove and a released state where the lock balls are not secured in the fixing groove.

A technique allows efficient registration of an accurate gripping position of a robot hand with an auxiliary view appearing on a screen in accordance with the robot hand. A user selects a hand type to be used in gripping a gripping target and designates an auxiliary view to be rendered in accordance with the hand. In response to a two-finger hand being selected (step S11), a plane (step S13), a cylinder (step S14), or a rectangular prism (step S15) is rendered based on the view designated by the user (step S12). In response to a suction hand being selected, a plane is rendered (step S16).

Provided is an ingredient extraction device which measures weight information of an ingredient extracted by a gripper, determines ratio information between a plurality of ingredients on the basis of order information on an order ordered by a customer using a server, controls the gripper to extract the plurality of ingredients in a preset order, and calculates extraction weight information of an ingredient to be extracted later from one or more pieces of weight information of an ingredient extracted in a previous turn on the basis of the ratio information.

Stabilization mechanisms may include at least one gripper mounted to a powerline-crawling robot, which may be configured to grasp a powerline supporting the powerline-crawling robot. At least one controller may be configured to control a lateral position of the at least one gripper. At least one inertial measurement unit may be configured to sense at least one of lateral movement and axial rotation of the powerline-crawling robot. The controller may control the lateral position of the gripper based on data from the inertial measurement unit. Various other related systems, devices, mechanisms, and methods are also disclosed.

An automatic method for autonomous interactions between robots, comprising an action of automatically receiving, by a transport robot, a request for transporting a service robot. The method comprises an action of automatically computing a location of the service robot. The method comprises an action of automatically moving the transport robot to the location of the service robot. The method comprises an action of automatically sending a signal from the service robot to the transport robot using a signal emitter incorporated into a mechanical element attached to the service robot. The method comprises an action of automatically coupling, using the signal, the mechanical element to a carrier element attached to the transport robot.