A robot system includes a track that extends along an axis between a first location and a second location. The track includes a pair of rails and a power transmitter and a radiating cable each extending along the track. A carriage is configured to convey a robot arm along the track. The carriage includes a plurality of wheels configured to roll along the pair of rails, a motor configured to drive at least one of the wheels along one of the rails, a power collector configured to translate along the power transmitter while maintaining contact with the power transmitter so as to conduct electrical power from the power transmitter to the motor, and a transceiver configured to receive and send electronic information from and to the radiating cable.

Provided is a relay goods picking system, the system includes: a plurality of carrying robots, a manual picking area, auxiliary pickup tools for manual goods picking which store goods for manual picking, a robot picking inventory container area provided with a plurality of inventory containers used for storing goods and being carried by the plurality of carrying robots, operating positions and a control system capable of communicating with the plurality of carrying robots and manual picking persons. For a mixed order which involves both goods in the manual picking area and goods in the robot picking rack area, under control of the control system, a person-to-goods picking mode and a goods-to-person picking mode are used to complete the goods picking.

A robot and a method of capturing an image applied to the robot, an electronic device for implementing the method of capturing the image, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The robot includes: a robot body; a workbench; a telescopic structure having one end pivotally connected to the robot body and the other end connected to the workbench; a driving mechanism arranged on the robot body and configured to drive the telescopic structure to extend, retract and/or move relative to the robot body; and an image capture device arranged on the workbench. The telescopic structure is configured to allow the image capture device to capture an image of a target object from different angles with the extension, retraction and/or movement of the telescopic structure.

Techniques are described that determine motion of a robot's body that will maintain an end effector within a useable workspace when the end effector moves according to a predicted future trajectory. The techniques may include determining or otherwise obtaining the predicted future trajectory of the end effector and utilizing the predicted future trajectory to determine any motion of the body that is necessary to maintain the end effector within the useable workspace. In cases where no such motion of the body is necessary because the predicted future trajectory indicates the end effector will stay within the useable workspace without motion of the body, the body may remain stationary, thereby avoiding the drawbacks caused by unnecessary motion described above. Otherwise, the body of the robot can be moved while the end effector moves to ensure that the end effector stays within the useable workspace.

A method and device for controlling a robot, and a robot. The device detects whether there is an article being put into or taken out from a storage container of a robot, and if it is detected that an article is put into or taken out from the storage container, an information list is updated according to the article being put into or taken out, the information list recording relevant information about articles in the storage container.

In a method for charging an electric device by a service rendering system, a controller of the service rendering system receives an image captured by an image sensor and processes the image to identify a label in the image as corresponding to the electric device. The controller obtains a service point location encoded in the label, where the service point location includes a location relative to a location of the label. The controller obtains service information included in the label, where the service request includes a charging service, and the charging service includes a description of an electric charging input of the electric device. The controller calculates a label position of the label using the image of the label and calculates a service point position using the service point location and the label position, where the service point position includes the electric charging input.

A machine learning method includes: a first learning step which is performed in a phase before a neural network is installed in a mobile robot and in which a stationary first obstacle is placed in a set space and the first obstacle is placed at different positions using simulation so that the neural network repeatedly learns a path from a starting point to the destination which avoids the first obstacle; and a second learning step which is performed in a phase after the neural network is installed in the mobile robot and in which, when the mobile robot recognizes a second obstacle that operates around the mobile robot in a space where the mobile robot moves, the neural network repeatedly learns a path to the destination which avoids the second obstacle every time the mobile robot recognizes the second obstacle.

A control method includes (a) measuring a misregistration index value relating to misregistration of a distal end portion of a manipulator by controlling the manipulator to perform a test operation, and (b) setting a limit value for an operation of the manipulator to prevent the misregistration index value from exceeding a predetermined threshold value.

A method and system for autonomous picking or put-away of items, totes, or cases within a logistics facility. The system includes a remote server and at least one manipulation robot. The system may further include at least one transport robot. The remote server is configured to communicate with the various robots to send and receive picking data, and the various robots are configured to autonomously navigate and position themselves within the logistics facility.

A robot may include a main body coupled to a traveling unit, a display unit disposed above a front portion of the main body, and a battery incorporated in the main body. The traveling unit may include a wheel having a rotational axis extending in a first direction, and the battery may overlap a vertical plane that extends along the rotational axis. The vertical plane and a center of the battery may be separated by a prescribed distance in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction.