The invention relates, inter alia, to an apparatus for connecting a gripper to a handling device. The apparatus has at least one compensating element for the purpose of compensating for position inaccuracies, with a toolholder for holding the gripper, a frame for connecting the compensating element to the handling device, and a plurality of elastically deformable connectors which connect the toolholder inside the frame to the frame in an elastically movable manner. The toolholder, the frame and the plurality of connectors are integrally connected as a single piece to one another.

A transfer unit of a test handler includes a base frame, a floating assembly, and an arm part. The base frame includes an inserted portion having a penetration hole. The inserted portion including an upper inserted portion disposed near an upper surface of the inserted portion, a lower portion disposed near a lower portion of the inserted portion and a middle inserted portion disposed between the upper inserted portion and the lower inserted portion. The floating assembly is inserted in the penetration hole of the base frame. The floating assembly includes a floating part, an elastic element, and a coupling element. The floating assembly moves back and forth, to left and right sides, and up and down, or flows within a predetermined angle range in the penetration hole.

A compliance compensator apparatus provides a mechanically compliant coupling between, e.g., a robot arm or robotic tool and a mechanical load. The compliance compensator apparatus comprise a base component and a compliance component attached to the base component and independently moveable in several aspects. The compliance component may move, with respect to the base component, axially, transversely, rotationally, and skew, in response to mechanical force from an engaged load. When the load is disengaged, the compliance compensator apparatus returns to a reset position wherein the compliance component is spaced apart from, but parallel to, the base component.

Surgical systems and methods for positioning a workpiece involve a first tool assembly including one of a coupler or a receiver, and a second tool assembly with an interface adapted to attach to the workpiece and including the other one of the coupler or the receiver. A tool guide is configured to mount to a surgical robot. The tool guide defines an aperture through which the first tool assembly is configured to extend. The tool guide is configured to support the first tool assembly and enable the first tool assembly to pivot relative to the tool guide to facilitate engagement between the coupler and receiver to align the first and second tool assemblies.

An impact-protection safety device for a robot comprises a first connection part, which is intended to be connected to a robot arm, and a second connection part, which is intended to be connected to an actuator, wherein the connection parts cooperate with one another by means of guides of a first and second type, and a plurality of spring elements in the form of compression springs are tensioned between the connection parts The different guides each comprise a plurality of pegs connected to the second connection part, wherein the pegs to be assigned to the guide of the first type each have a stop contour that acts in the pull-out direction and engages behind a contour of the first connection part, and the pegs to be assigned to the guide of the second type are each surrounded by one of the spring elements.

An end effector support for a system includes a first compliance mechanism, including two base rails. A first base rail is offset from a second base rail in a first direction of movement of the end effector. Each base rail has an identical curvilinear profile. The support includes two compliance rails, each operably connected to a respective base rail of the two base rails. A plurality of rolling elements are positioned between each base rail and each compliance rail to operably connect the base rail to the compliance rail. A position sensor is located at the first compliance mechanism to detect a position of the compliance rails relative to the respective base rails. Each compliance rail is configured to be pivotably connected to the end effector symmetrically to allow for movement of the end effector in the first direction of movement.

A processing device with a constant force spindle capable of quickly switching a force control axial direction and a processing method thereof, having a quick-detach unit fixed at a constant force control unit by a first quick-connecting piece, and respectively connecting and moving synchronously with the spindle by a second quick-connecting piece and a third quick-connecting piece, the first quick-connecting piece moves along with a working end of a multi-axial transfer unit, and when combined, a first axial direction that is coaxial with the force control axial direction is defined; alternatively, the first quick-connecting piece moves along with the working end of the multi-axial transfer unit, and when combined, a second axial direction that is coaxial with the force control axial direction is defined, the first axial direction is not parallel to the second axial direction and has an included angle.

A sensing manipulator of an articulated arm is disclosed. The sensing manipulator includes a compliant section and a movement detection system provided along a first direction of the compliant section such that movement of the compliant section along both the first direction and at least one direction transverse to said first direction, are detectable by the movement detection system.

The present disclosure shows a device for the automated establishment of a plug-in connection of a plug arranged at a cable to a plug mating element, such as for cabling battery modules, and in the manufacture of vehicles having hybrid and/or electric drives, comprising: a gripper for gripping the plug, a handling unit having a plurality of axes for moving the gripper, with it being a multi-axis robot and/or a surface portal, and a control for controlling the gripper and the handling unit. Provision is made in this process that the gripper comprises a plug-in actuator for moving the plug into a plugged-in position with the plug mating element.

Disclosed is a robotic wrist device with variable stiffness including: a base part; a fixing part including a plurality of actuators; a central part including a socket part formed in an upper direction; a moving part including a downwardly extending ball joint, and an elastic member having an inner circumference coupled to the central part at a periphery of the central part and an outer circumference coupled to an outer peripheral portion of the moving part, in which the moving part is capable of tilting movement relative to the central part in response to rotation of the ball joint, and the moving part includes a plurality of connection parts which are connected to the fixing parts through wires connected to the plurality of actuators, respectively.