A substrate conveying apparatus includes: a substrate grasping hand; a first holding member provided at a tip end portion of the substrate grasping hand and including a plurality of first jaw portions; a second holding member provided at a base end portion of the substrate grasping hand and including a plurality of second jaw portions; a first sensor provided at the base end portion of the substrate grasping hand and configured to emit light or ultrasound and detect substrates; and a controller configured to make the first sensor emit the light or the ultrasound toward spaces each between the adjacent substrates and determine whether or not the substrates are normally held.

A robotic system is controlled. Audiovisual data representing an environment in which at least part of the robotic system is located is received via at least one camera and at least one microphone. The audiovisual data comprises a visual data component representing a visible part of the environment and an audio data component representing an audible part of the environment. A location of a sound source that emits sound that is represented in the audio data component of the audiovisual data is identified based on the audio data component of the audiovisual data. The sound source is outside the visible part of the environment and is not represented in the visual data component of the audiovisual data. Operation of a controllable element located in the environment is controlled based on the identified location of the sound source.

The walking robot is a mobile robot. The walking robot moves in a bipedal manner. The bipedal movement of the walking robot is autonomous. The walking robot is a programmed device that: 1) can move in a bipedal fashion; 2) pick up and put down objects; 3) performs optical data processing functions such as avoiding objects during motion or identifying objects to pick up and put down; 4) performs speech recognition functions such as receiving spoken instruction; and, 5) responds to spoken instruction in an audible manner using a spoken language. The walking robot comprises a torso, a plurality of legs, a plurality of arms, and a helmet. The plurality of legs, the plurality of arms, and the helmet is attached to the torso. Both the plurality of legs and plurality of arms both rotate in the coronal plane, sagittal plane and the transverse plane.

Touch events can be detected using an ultrasound input device coupled to a surface, such as a surface of a piece of furniture or electronic device. The ultrasound input device can generate ultrasonic waves in the surface, the reflections of which can be measured by the ultrasound input device. When a touch is made to the surface (e.g., opposite the ultrasound input device), the physical contact can absorb some of the energy of the outgoing ultrasonic waves (e.g., the originally transmitted wave and any subsequent outgoing reflections). Energy measurements associated with the measured reflections can thus be used to identify touch events. Various techniques can be used to make the energy measurements and reduce identification of false touch events.

A robot includes: a microphone assembly to which a voice is input; an accelerometer connected to a noise source; and a controller configured to control the microphone assembly, wherein the microphone assembly includes: a microphone housing formed in one surface thereof with an opening and formed therein with a space; a microphone accommodated in the space; and an anti-noise speaker accommodated in the space and spaced apart from the microphone, and the controller includes an anti-noise generator configured to output a signal corresponding to an anti-noise against the acquired noise to the anti-noise speaker.

A robot which executes a mounted artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm and/or machine learning algorithm and is capable of communicating with other electronic devices and external servers in a 5G communication environment and an operating method thereof. The robot includes a distance sensing sensor, an input unit which includes a plurality of microphones and is for inputting an audio signal, an output unit which includes a display, and a processor which obtains a sound of a base sound source disposed within a sensible range of the distance sensing sensor through a plurality of microphones to process the sound. The processor measures the distance between the robot and the base sound source using the distance sensing sensor, calculates reference CDR information corresponding to the measured distance information, and estimates CDR information of a sound corresponding to the distance from the robot based on the calculated reference CDR information.

In a robot, an actuator causes the robot to operate. A processor is configured to acquire, when a holding portion is held by a predetermined target, physical information on a physical function of the predetermined target, and cause, by controlling the actuator depending on the acquired physical information, the robot to perform at least one of an examination operation for examining the physical function of the predetermined target and a training support operation for training the physical function of the predetermined target.

A robot is equipped with a processor. The processor detects external appearance or audio of a living being, and by controlling the robot, causes the robot to execute an operation in accordance with liking data indicating preferences of the robot regarding external appearance or audio and the detected external appearance or audio of the living being.

A guide robot includes a base, a body attached above the base, and a head attached above the body, wherein the base, the body, and the head each include a first case configured to form a first face, a second case configured to form a second face, and a bridge case inserted at a point where the first case and the second case are coupled to each other.

Disclosed herein is a robot sensing array for multidirectional sensing by a robot. The robot can include one or more robot body members. The sensing array can include a plurality of sensors radially supported on at least one of the one or more robot body members of the robot. The plurality of sensors can include a first sensor, a second sensor located on the at least one of the one or more robot body members at a first position adjacent to the first sensor, and a third sensor located on the at least one of the one or more robot body members at a second position adjacent to the first sensor. The first sensor of the plurality of sensors is disposed to have an overlapping field of view with the second sensor and the third sensor.