A control device of a robot system including a plurality of robots having servo motors of a plurality of axes. The control device includes a plurality of controllers each having a plurality of servo amplifiers that drives the servo motors of the plurality of axes of the robots, and a control unit that controls the plurality of servo amplifiers. The control unit determines a driving number of the servo motors of the plurality of axes in accordance with the robots connected to the controllers, and sets a parameter for the servo amplifiers that drive the axes of the servo motors of a number corresponding to the determined driving number.

A gripper for industrial manipulators comprising a body, jaws constrained to the body and activable to hold and release a piece, an actuator of the jaws and a sensor configured to detect the presence of a piece between said jaws, is described. Advantageously, the sensor is not positioned between the jaws, in the space intended to accommodate the piece to be held, but is functionally interposed between the actuator and one of the jaws.

A method for detecting the presence of a piece between the jaws of an industrial manipulator gripper, the method providing a sensor to be used to detect the position of a jaw with respect to the actuator of the gripper.

A robot body care system according to the present disclosure includes: a body care device which performs body care by applying physical stimulation to a user; and an information processing server including a reception unit that receives, from the outside as treatment information, a treatment method indicating a way of applying stimulation to the portions of the body of the user when body care is performed on the user, a command value generation unit that generates treatment command values as electrical signals on the basis of the treatment information entered into the reception unit, and a transmission unit that transmits the treatment command values to the body care device.

A robot includes a display configured to display a face image indicating a face of the robot, an input unit configured to receive a customizing request for the face of the robot, and a processor configured to acquire customizing data based on the received customizing request, to generate a face design based on the acquired customizing data, and to control the display to display a face image based on the generated face design.

Deformable sensors and methods for modifying membrane stiffness through magnetic attraction are provided. A deformable sensor may include a membrane coupled to a housing to form a sensor cavity. The deformable sensor may further include magnetically-attractable particles located on or within the membrane. The deformable sensor may additionally include a magnetic object located at a base within the sensor cavity. The magnetic object may be configured to modifiably attract the magnetically-attractable particles and modify stiffness of the deformable sensor by modifying air pressure within the sensor cavity, based on modifiable strength of the magnetic object to attract the magnetically-attractable particles.

The present patent application for the invention of a device, coupled to a robot or other handling system, deals with the pressure on the container, which allows the product to be moved to be held, moving and rotating them, defining their positioning and organizing them for later palletizing or positioning for subsequent operations. The invention comprises a device (D) composed of a headstock or structure (1) made of metal or another type of material, to be coupled, by means of a coupling (2), to a robot (R1) or other handling equipment; and, in the lower part of the device (D), an elastic blanket (3) made of material such as elastic/polymer is installed, which must have the property of maintaining the integrity of the product handled, in this case the container (4), single or grouped, and allow it to be moved over the work area (A1). The device (D), according to the invention, is operated from movements for the formation of layers or mosaics (M) from a dedicated software, and this association enables the movement of the containers (4) in transverse and longitudinal axes, or swivels.

Embodiments included herein are directed towards a system and method for robotic control. The system may include a graphical user interface configured to allow a user to access a data storage unit associated with a robot. The system may further include a configurable portion including the data storage unit, a manipulator controller, and a data transfer layer. The system may also include a generic portion configured to parse the configurable portion to generate a robotic controller.

A robotic device includes an end effector device, a first sensor, and a controller. The end effector device includes two fingers for gripping a workpiece. The first sensor detects a pressure distribution on a gripping position on the workpiece by the two fingers. The controller performs, based on a temporal variation in the pressure distribution when the workpiece is lifted, posture control including rotation of the end effector device.

Provided is an agent robot control system comprising an acquisition unit which acquires a purchasing master list which shows a user's purchase merchandise candidates, and a control unit which generates a purchasing execution list for recommending, from the purchasing master list, purchases for select merchandise to be performed at real storefronts and for recommending purchases for other merchandise to be performed at online storefronts.

A soft gripper apparatus is provided. In another aspect, a soft gripper includes tribo-skin pressure sensors, an internal bending sensor, at least one flexible gripping finger and an actuator. A further aspect of a soft gripper apparatus employs longitudinally elongated, laterally spaced apart and self-powering, electrically conductive strips that sense and send a bending signal to a programmable controller indicative of a bending angle of a gripping finger within which the strips are encapsulated. Another aspect of a gripping apparatus includes at least one workpiece pressure sensor and/or at least one bending sensor, which are connected to a programmable controller and electrical circuit to automatically determine a characteristic of the workpiece.