Provided is a robot hand applicable to purpose for holding various types of objects different in size or shape. The robot hand includes a hand base, a first hand arm having a first butting part and a first adsorption part, a second hand arm having a second butting part and a second adsorption part, and a driving mechanism for moving the first and second butting parts in directions to approach each other or separate from each other by moving the first and second hand arms relatively to each other.

The baked object taking-out apparatus is an apparatus that takes out a baked object from a baking base plate including a disposing surface on which the baked object is disposed. The baked object taking-out apparatus includes a robot arm, a holding member that is provided on the robot arm, that is formed of a metal material, and that is capable of holding the baking base plate, and a protective member that is formed at a portion of the holding member which comes into contact with the baking base plate and that is configured with a ceramic coating which contains a ceramic component.

A mechanical finger has a base adapted to be connected to an actuator for being displaced in at least one degree of actuation, and has two or more phalanges. A first phalanx is rotationally connected at a proximal end to the base, and a second phalanx is rotationally connected at a proximal end to a distal end of the first phalanx. A transmission linkage providing at least one rotational degree of freedom (DOF) between the base and a distal-most one of the phalanges. Passive rotational DOF joints are between the phalanges, between the base and the first phalanx, and in the transmission linkage, whereby the mechanical finger has a passive state of actuation in which the base, the at least two phalanges and the transmission linkage remain in a constant orientation relative to one another through displacement of the base caused by the actuator absent a contact of one of the phalanges with an object, and a grasping state of actuation in which a contact of at least one of the phalanges with an object causes a variation of the orientation of at least one of the phalanges relative to the base through displacement of the base caused by the actuator.

An end of arm tool (EOAT) for use with a robotic end effector includes radially opposed gripper fingers secured to a distal end portion of the robotic end effector, each radially opposed gripper finger having a recess with a first sidewall and a second sidewall oriented at an acute angle relative to the first sidewall. The radially opposed gripper fingers are configured to translate radially to grip a part within the recesses and to release the part for placement in an assembly.

A robot including a manipulator having a plurality of joints and a base supporting the manipulator, includes a first piezoelectric motor and a second piezoelectric motor respectively having vibrators that transmit drive forces to a driven portion and performing rotary driving, wherein a distance between a rotation axis and the vibrator is smaller in the second piezoelectric motor than in the first piezoelectric motor, a plurality of the vibrators are placed along rotation axis directions in the second piezoelectric motor, and the second piezoelectric motor is placed closer to a distal end side opposite to the base than the first piezoelectric motor.

Equipment for packaging products, and re-packaging previously packaged products, for promoting use of the products. The products can be products for pharmaceutical or medical use, or the like, being in the form of a blister, containing respective pharmaceutical forms, i.e., in the form of packages, such as boxes, containing a respective article or a drug, i.e., in the form of other articles, by way of example vials, syringes for injections or other, inserted in corresponding containers, in the form of pouches, and being usable, in a re-packaged form, by corresponding entities, such as hospitals or the like, for the therapeutic treatment, especially of people. The equipment includes a device for loading the products, a device for discharging the products packaged by the equipment, and a controller for controlling the equipment. The loading device receives the products to be packaged in a random loading configuration.

A machine (10) to automatically transport, from and to one or more working stations (12), one or more components (11) to make a package, comprises a reference surface (13), with which electric energizing members (14) are associated to selectively generate one or more magnetic fields, and at least a pair of support members (15) each provided with magnetic means (16) configured to interact with the magnetic fields. The machine (10) comprises control means (17) configured to energize selectively and in a coordinated manner the electric energizing members (14) to cause the selective movement of each support member (15) from one point to another of the reference surface (13). Each support member (15) is also provided with respective gripping means (18) comprising at least one support arm (19), wherein the support arm (19) of the first support member (15) is configured to cooperate with the support arm (19) of the second support member (15) to selectively temporarily grip and support at least one or more components (11).

A robot hand configured to grip a substrate by contacting an edge of the substrate at least two locations is provided, which includes a base body defining a gripping position at which the center of the substrate is located on a center line extending in a longitudinal direction, a sliding surface provided on a base-end side of a second contacting part on the center line and configured to move with the second contacting part, and a mobile body slid surface provided on the base-end side of the sliding surface on the center line, and moving toward a tip end on the center line to push the sliding surface and move the sliding surface and the second contacting part toward the tip end. When the substrate is gripped, the second contacting part receives a force from the substrate and the surface slides to move the second part toward the base body.

The invention relates to an automated cell (100) for handling containers in which rubber blocks are arranged. The cell includes: a frame that allows the fixed installation of the cell; an automatic centering system having a guiding means that allows precise positioning of a loaded container in a loading space (112) of the cell; a clamping system having a holding means that maintains the positioning of the loaded container in the loading space of the cell; and a locking system having a locking means that maintains the positioning of the container in the loading space of the cell.

A system and method for handling includes a tote handler. The tote handler includes an adjustable grip hand or a merger hand. The adjustable grip hand includes finger assemblies movable by actuators between a closed with the fingers urged together and an open position with the fingers urged apart. The fingers are selectively movable by the actuators between a retracted and an extended position. The merger grip hand includes insert fingers and suction fingers. Each of the insert fingers include a polygonal body having a peripheral surface shaped for engaging receipt within an inner surface of a tote. The suction fingers include elongate members with suction cups thereon. The suction fingers are movable between a closed position with the suction fingers urged towards the insert fingers and an open position with the suction fingers urged away from the insert fingers.