A frame body may be parallel to and proximate with a surface of a structure and extend substantially horizontally from a first side to a second side. A connecting portion may be provided to be attached to a cable to provide for vertical movement of the frame body. A robotic arm may be affixed proximate to a bottom of the frame body and be able to move horizontally during penetrative imaging of the surface. Moreover, the robotic arm may extend to an end proximate with the surface, and a penetrative imaging portion may be attached to the robotic arm near the end proximate with the surface. The robotic arm may rotate, vertically moving the penetrative imaging portion during penetrative imaging of the surface. In addition, the penetrative imaging portion may be separately rotated about three orthogonal axes of rotation (yaw, pitch, roll) to achieve various angles of approach and orientation to the surface.

An apparatus for manipulating articles in which a multiaxial industrial robot is arranged on a travel unit and the industrial robot and the travel unit can be supplied with electrical energy via an energy storage unit. The travel unit has a control unit and at least three wheels having at least one drive unit, with the control unit being configured to rotate at least one of the wheels by the drive unit about an axis of rotation standing perpendicular on a symmetrical axis of rotation of the wheel and to rotate it about the symmetrical axis of rotation by the respective drive unit so that the apparatus can be moved in any direction by the travel unit. In addition, area monitoring sensors are arranged on at least two sides of the travel unit to monitor a virtual surface located at a predefined spacing next to and not intersecting the travel unit.

Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for preparing a robotic system for surgery. In one aspect, the method includes a robotic arm, a sensor configured to generate information indicative of a location of the robotic arm, a processor, and at least one computer-readable memory in communication with the processor and having stored thereon computer-executable instructions. The instructions are configured to cause the processor to receive the information from the sensor, determine that the robotic arm is located at a first position in which a first axis associated with the robotic arm is not in alignment with a second axis associated with a port installed in a patient, and provide a command to move the robotic arm to a second position in which the first axis associated with the robotic arm is in alignment with the second axis.

The present disclosure relates to a plurality of autonomous mobile robots. A plurality of autonomous mobile robots comprise a first mobile robot including an antenna configured to transmit and receive signals, and a second mobile robot including a first antenna and a second antenna disposed on a front area of a main body thereof to transmit and receive signals to and from the antenna of the first mobile robot. The second mobile robot comprises a control unit configured to determine a relative position of the first mobile robot using the signal received by the first antenna and the second antenna.

A system for predicting a robotic power disconnection includes: a controller; and a robot controllable by the controller, the robot including: a power connector configured to provide power to the robot; and a sensor operably connected to the controller, the sensor configured to detect a change in a field that varies with a changing condition of the power connector, the sensor further configured to alert the controller regarding the change in the field, the controller configured to adjust current through the power connector in response to the alert.

An X-ray device has a detector which is arranged on a mobile unit and is assigned to a first positioning unit. An X-ray source is arranged on an arcuate second positioning unit. The positioning of the first and second positioning units can be matched to one another in the course of their movements. The first positioning unit has at least one articulated arm and the second positioning unit has a first and a second arc-shaped positioning element. The first and second positioning units are arranged separately from one another on a movable unit.

Systems and methods are described, and an example system includes a transport bin configured to carry a baggage item and having spatial reference frame marking detectable by electromagnetic scan and by machine vision. The system includes a robotic arm apparatus at an inspection area, and includes a switched path baggage conveyor that, responsive to electromagnetic scan detection of an object-of-interest (OOI) within the baggage item, conveys the transport bin to the inspection area. The electromagnetic scan generates OOI geometric position information indicating geometric position of the OOI relative to the spatial reference frame marking. The robotic arm apparatus, responsive to receiving the transport bin, uses machine vision to detect orientation of the spatial reference frame marking, then translates OOI geometric position information to local reference frame, for robotic opening of the baggage item, and robotic accessing and contact swab testing on the OOI.

An ushering method, an electronic device and a storage medium, related to the fields of short-distance positioning, geomagnetic positioning, computer vision positioning, map navigation, intelligent robots, ushering and the like, are provided. The method includes: in response to an ushering request initiated by a user, parsing a target dining position from the ushering request; creating a navigation route from a current position to the target dining position, wherein the navigation route comprises a first traveling route created in a case where an assistant robot is provided, or a second traveling route created by the user based on an ushering client; and performing ushering processing according to the navigation route, to usher the user to the target dining position. Manpower and material resource wastes are avoided, and convenient ushering for dining is implemented.

Provided are an SEA, a method of controlling the SEA and a system using the same. The SEA includes a motor-side rotation unit coupled to a driving motor and rotated by rotatory power of the driving motor, a load-side rotation unit coupled to the motor-side rotation unit to transfer the rotatory power of the driving motor to a load, and at least one pair of elastic members provided in spaces between the motor-side rotation unit and the load-side rotation unit. A frame having accommodation spaces to which the pair of elastic members is fixed is formed in any one of the motor-side rotation unit and the load-side rotation unit.

Provided is an electrostatic capacitance sensor which can remove an influence of a noise occurring from a static eliminator or a driving source and accurately perform measurement even on electrostatic capacitance detected by a thin-type detection unit which can be passed to a finger surface of a wafer transfer robot. The present invention is provided with an AC supply source which supplies an AC voltage to a detection unit, a parasitic capacitance compensation circuit, an operational amplifier, a differential amplifier, a phase detection means, and a low pass filter. An operational amplification output terminal is connected to an inversion input terminal of the differential amplifier through a first band pass filter, the AC supply source is connected to a non-inversion input terminal of the differential amplifier through a second band pass filter, an output terminal of the differential amplifier is connected to an input terminal of the phase detection means, and the phase detection means takes, as a reference signal, an AC signal output from the AC supply source.