A robot including a robot main body having at least two openings passing through an outer wall thereof in a wall thickness direction and a cable routed in an interior of the robot main body, where the cable includes branch cables each of which is split off from a trunk cable of the cable in a vicinity of each of the openings.

An identification number setting system includes a first element component including a first storing section, coupled to a first branch communication line branching from a main line of a bus-type communication wire, and coupled to a power supply, a second element component including a second storing section, coupled to a second branch communication line branching from the main line, and coupled to the power supply to be capable of switching energization and disenergization, and a control device coupled to the main line and configured to communicate with the first element component and the second element component. The control device writes a first identification number in the first storing section in a first state and writes a second identification number different from the first identification number in the second storing section after the writing of the first identification number and in a second state.

A robotic grasping system can include a three-dimensional (3D) printed joint, a stiff portion coupled with the 3D-printed joint, internal tubes within the 3D-printed joint, a bellows coupled with the 3D-printed joint and at least one of the internal tubes, and a pressure source configured to cause the internal tubes to pressurize or depressurize the bellows.

A robot includes a robot arm, a base supporting the robot arm, and a cable coupled to the base, wherein the base has a housing a circuit board, a connector unit located on a side surface of the housing and electrically coupled to the circuit board, to which the cable is coupled, a cover member having an insertion portion through which the cable is inserted and attached to the side surface of the housing to cover the connector unit, and a wall portion located between a coupling portion by which the cover member is coupled to the side surface of the housing and the connector and provided to project from the side surface of the housing within a space surrounded by the side surface of the housing and the cover member.

A system including an inspection robot having a plurality of sensors, a further sensor, and a controller. The controller having circuitry to receive inspection data with a first resolution from the plurality of sensors, determine a characteristic on the inspection surface based on the inspection data, and provide an inspection operation adjustment in response to the characteristic, wherein the inspection operation adjustment includes a change from the first resolution to a second resolution. The change from the first resolution to the second resolution includes enabling the further sensor where the further sensor is at least one of: horizontally distributed with or vertically displaced from the plurality of sensors relative to a travel path of the plurality of sensors, and at least one of: offset in alignment from the travel path of the plurality of sensors, or operated out of phase with the plurality of sensors.

A layer module for use on a robot has an inlet side having an inlet-side mechanical adapter geometry and an outlet side having an outlet-side mechanical adapter geometry. The inlet-side and the outlet-side mechanical adapter geometries are complementary to one another. The layer module has at least one functional assembly. The functional assembly can be contacted electrically, hydraulically and/or pneumatically on the inlet side and/or on the outlet side. An adapter system comprises at least two such layer modules. A layer module system comprises an adapter system and a fixed part, the fixed part being connected to the free inlet side or to the free outlet side of the adapter system. The layer module has at least two locking parts that are mounted in a spring-loaded, displaceable or pivotable manner, and at least two guide elements oriented in the longitudinal direction of the layer module that have geometrically different designs.

A robot includes an input link, an output link, and a wire routing. The output link is coupled to the input link at an inline twist joint where the output link is configured to rotate about the longitudinal axis of the output link relative to the input link. The wire routing traverses the inline twist joint to couple the input link and the output link. The wire routing includes an input link section, an output link section, and an omega section. A first position of the wire routing coaxially aligns at a start of the omega section on the input link with a second position of the wire routing at an end of the omega section on an output link.

A waterproof structure including an extension shaft disposed at an upper side of a vertically extending ball screw spline shaft so as to be coaxial with the ball screw spline shaft, a cylindrical cover member that covers the extension shaft and the ball screw spline shaft and is configured to be extended and shortened in a direction along a longitudinal axis of the extension shaft, and a rotary connection unit that connects the ball screw spline shaft and the extension shaft to each other so that the ball screw spline shaft and the extension shaft are configured to rotate relative to each other around the longitudinal axis, where an upper end of the cover member is fixed to an upper end of the extension shaft.

A robotic arm capable of reducing the size while suppressing damage to a plurality of elongated members inserted therein, is provided. The robotic arm to which an end effector is attached, includes plurality of elongated members extending to end effector, cylindrical housing defining a periphery of internal space configured to be a passage of plurality of elongated members, and an attaching structure provided to a tip end of the internal space of the cylindrical housing so as to attach the end effector to a tip-end part of the cylindrical housing. The attaching structure includes insertion holes formed corresponding to plurality of elongated members so as to insert the plurality of elongated members therein, and fixing members configured to fix the plurality of elongated members to the insertion holes, respectively. The cylindrical housing is formed so that the inner diameter is larger at the tip-end part than at a base-end part.

A snag point cover for an industrial manufacturing robot, the snag point cover including: a body adapted to be disposed about a protrusion extending from an external surface of an industrial manufacturing robot, wherein the body is adapted to form an external transition surface between the protrusion and the external surface of the industrial manufacturing robot thereby preventing a dresspack from becoming snagged on the protrusion when the industrial manufacturing robot is articulated. The snag point cover body is adapted to surround and cover one or more protrusions. The snag point cover body may be elongated or arcuate in shape and defines an internal cavity that conforms to the one or more protrusions. This allows external structures such as wiring harnesses and conduits to slide over these protrusions without becoming snagged or pinched during complex motion.