A robot hand and a robot having the robot hand, the robot hand having a mechanism configured to appropriately carry out surface matching between an electrical magnet and an adsorbed surface of a workpiece, corresponding to the posture of the adsorbed surface. The robot hand has: a hand base; a holder attached to the hand base; a spherical bearing arranged in the holder so that a rotational center of the spherical bearing is positioned on a hand center axis; a connecting member attached to the holder via the spherical bearing, the connecting member having a protruding portion which protrudes from the holder in a direction opposed to the hand base; a holder base fixed to an attachment surface opposed to an adsorbing surface of the electrical magnet; and a posture restoring member for restoring the posture of the holder base so that the holder base represents a neutral posture.

A modular robotic snake-arm assembly is described which is animated principally by an articulated drive shaft that threads the length of the snake-arm. The articulated drive shaft is driven by a motor in the fixed base. One or more clutch mechanisms in each segment couple with the articulated drive shaft so as to cause all snake arms further from the base to reorient in either one or two angles, in either direction. Snake-arm segments can be coupled end-to-end to form a robotic snake arm of great length.

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.

An apparatus, system and method for providing a floating end effector for grasping small precision parts. The end effector includes at least one end effector module having at least: tooling for grasping a part for pickup and placement; a module shaft connected on a first end to the tooling, and having a second end opposite the tooling; and at least two air bearing associated with the second end, wherein the at least two air bearings in combination impart degrees of freedom to the tooling in at least x and y axes and in theta.

An electric vehicle charging robot configured for absorbing an external disturbance to prevent a damage of the electric vehicle charging robot and an electric vehicle, includes a charging connector engageable to a charging inlet of an electric vehicle to supply electric power to the electric vehicle. The electric vehicle charging robot apparatus includes: a body frame extending in a vertical direction and including a vertical support of which an upper end portion is movable upward and downward; a multi-joint link unit of a SCARA type coupled to an upper side of the body frame and including a plurality of link arms each of which is movable and rotatable in a horizontal direction; and a flexible joint unit disposed between an end portion of the multi-joint link unit and the charging connector.

The present invention discloses an automatic high-shear low-pressure force-controlled grinding device for a complicated curved surface and a machining method thereof, which belong to the field of complicated curved surface grinding technologies of difficult-to-machine materials. The device comprises a base, columns, an industrial robot, an electrical spindle, a force-controlled floating work holder, a workpiece chuck, a grinder plate, a six-dimensional force sensor, a rotary table, a triaxial precision displacement table, a safeguard hood, a safety door, and a pedestal. The grinder plate comprises a grinder plate substrate, a press plate, a lining plate, and an abrasive layer. Each module is effectively communicated, and a control system collects and processes signals as well as transmits commands to achieve automatic force-controlled grinding of the complicated curved surface. The abrasive layer of the grinder plate generates the shear thickening effect; so, the material can be removed in a high-shear low-pressure grinding manner.

Mechanisms to realize lightweight rotational joints having independently adjustable compliance in one or more degrees of freedom are presented herein. In addition, robotic systems incorporating one or more compliant rotational joints as described herein are also presented. In some embodiments, a robotic structure includes a member having adjustable rotational compliance. One or more compliance elements are arranged around a rotational joint. The position of the one or more compliance elements relative to the rotational joint is adjusted to change the overall joint compliance. In some embodiments, the change of position of the one or more compliance elements relative to the rotational joint changes both the induced displacement of the compliance element for a given angular displacement of the rotational joint and the length of the moment arm from the rotational joint to the compliance element.

An assembly apparatus assembles a first component and a second component. The assembly apparatus includes a gripping section, a correcting section, and a driving section. The gripping section grips the first component. The correcting section corrects positional shift of the first component relative to the second component. The driving section drives the correcting section. The correcting section includes a first mechanism connected to the gripping section and a second mechanism connected to the driving section. The first mechanism has a first tapered portion on a surface opposite to the gripping section. The second mechanism has a second tapered portion on a surface opposite to the driving section. The second tapered portion has a substantially identical shape to the first tapered portion. The first tapered portion is placed on the second tapered portion.

A robotic device that can include an end effector configured to manipulate one or more tools that drives one or more consumable abrasive products to abrade a substrate along several different surface dimensions, wherein the end effector comprises: three linear actuators each configured to move orthogonal relative to one another and at least one tool mount coupled to one of the three linear actuators and coupled to the tool.

An alignment device has a support base attached to a conveying device, and a mounting plate to which a gripping member is attached, and the mounting plate is transferably abutted on a fastening holder that is fixed to the support base. A movable ring fixed to the mounting plate has a sliding part that is transferably engaged with the fastening holder. A first holding mechanism arranged between the fastening holder and the mounting plate locks the mounting plate to the fastening holder. A second holding mechanism provided between the fastening holder and the movable ring cancels a first-direction force of the mounting plate.