A robotic transport system including a drive section connected to a frame, an articulated arm operably coupled to the drive section providing the articulated arm with arm motion in at least one axis of motion moving at least a portion of the articulated arm in a collaborative space, corresponding to the frame, from a first location to another different location in the collaborative space, the articulated arm having an end effector with a workpiece grip having workpiece engagement members engaging and holding a workpiece during workpiece transport, by the arm motion in the at least one axis of motion, wherein at least one of the workpiece engagement members is frangible compliant, having a frangible compliant coupling between a distal portion of the at least one of the workpiece engagement members and a base portion of the end effector from which the at least one of the workpiece engagement members depends.

An example robotic tool holder includes an actuator that is disposed within a housing and configured to hold a tool. The housing and the actuator are in contact via dowels to limit movement of the actuator toward a distal end of the housing. Ones of the dowels that are in contact are in line contact and the ones of the dowels that are in contact are in a triangular geometry. The pressure plate is in line contact with the actuator within the housing around a circumference of the pressure plate. The springs are in contact with the pressure plate to bias the actuator toward a proximal end of the housing via the pressure plate. The springs are in contact with the mounting plate opposite the pressure plate. The sensor switch detects a shock force on the actuator and outputs a signal in response to the shock force.

A clutch comprising a hub and a cam connected to the hub, said cam comprising a ring-shaped part having grooves formed on a bottom surface of the ring-shaped part; a spring plate having recesses formed on a top surface of the spring plate; an output flange and a part of a roller bearing connected to each other, said output flange comprising a ring-shaped part configured to accommodate the spring plate, a plurality of transmission elements arranged in an angular direction between the spring plate and the cam; a plurality of springs arranged in the angular direction between the spring plate and the output flange; and a sliding bearing provided at an interface between the hub and the output flange, wherein the clutch is configured to be changed between first and second states. A high-speed industrial robot capable of moving on a plurality of axes, and use thereof.

A robot system and method for controlling a robot, wherein during learning, a detection unit detects, as waveform data for learning, the contact state when a socket is caused to contact a set position of the head of a bolt and is caused to rotate around the set position within a set movement range. A learning unit learns a plurality of detected sets of the waveform data for learning and writes the learning results to a determination unit. During practical operations, the determination unit recognizes the amount that the socket slips with respect to the bolt on the basis of actual waveform data indicating the change in the contact state when the socket is in contact with the head of the bolt and the written learning results.

An automated device has a movable structure covered at least in part by a sensorised covering. The sensorised covering comprises a plurality of covering modules, which includes one or more sensorised covering modules. Each sensorised covering module includes a plurality of distinct layers stacked on top of one another and including a load-bearing layer and at least one cushioning layer. Each sensorised covering module integrates at least one contact sensor device (C), which includes a first lower electrically conductive layer (61) and a second upper electrically conductive layer (63), set between which is an electrically insulating layer (62).

A clutch mechanism for a mechanical effector device includes a reel configured for winding and unwinding a tendon around the reel, and a base configured to connect to and rotate with a motor for rotation of the base around an axis. The reel and base are further configured for alignment with and rotation around a common axis of rotation. Inner ends of the reel and base mutually castellated and interlocking and the castellations are configured to ride up and over one another to allow independent rotation of the reel and base if an unresolvable rotation force is encountered.

A robot includes a robot main body having a platform and a robot arm displaced with respect to the platform, a vibration sensor provided to the robot main body to detect a vibration of the robot main body, a collision detection section configured to detect a collision between the robot main body and a physical object based on an output from the vibration sensor, wherein the collision detection section includes a first detection section configured to detect the collision based on a vibration signal output from the vibration sensor, and a second detection section configured to detect the collision based on an extracted vibration signal obtained by extracting a vibration component with a frequency not lower than a first predetermined value from the vibration signal.

A method, a delimiting device and an arrangement that includes an automatic movement machine that has at least one movable element, wherein the arrangement includes a delimiting device for delimiting a working region of the automatic movement machine, where the delimiting device includes at least one delimiting element via which it is possible to prevent the at least one element from overshooting at least one boundary of the working region, and the delimiting device also includes a movement apparatus that is configured to move the at least one delimiting element depending on at least one movement of the at least one movable element such that the at least one delimiting element prevents the at least one movable element from overshooting the at least one boundary.

According to one embodiment, a holding device includes: holding parts; a holding part opening/closing part that opens and closes the holding parts; a first sensor that detects a load received by the holding part; and a controller that controls an operation of the holding part. At least one of the plurality of holding parts includes a claw member displaceable along a length direction of the holding part, a second sensor that detects a displacement amount of the claw member, and a reaction force applying part that applies a reaction force corresponding to the displacement amount of the claw member to the claw member. The controller controls the operation of the holding part, based on a detection value of the second sensor when the displacement amount is equal to or less than a threshold value, and based on a detection value of the first sensor when the displacement amount exceeds the threshold value.

A robot including: two link members with longitudinal axes that are coupled such that the link members are able to relatively rotate about an axial line; and a sensor that detects a force around the axial line acting between the link members due to an object pinched between the link members, in which the robot has such a shape that a width dimension in a direction along a plane of a cross-sectional surface of at least one of the link members, which perpendicularly intersects the axial line, on at least one sides from the longitudinal axes that intersect the axial line continuously spread from at least midway positions of the at least one of the link members in the direction of the longitudinal axes toward the axial line, respectively.