Disclosed is a stocker for receiving a cassette. The stocker includes a shelf for receiving a cassette, a stocker robot, a teaching jig, and a teaching unit. The stocker robot includes a robot arm configured to load the cassette in the shelf and to unload the cassette from the shelf. The teaching jig is disposed in the shelf to teach the stocker robot. The teaching unit is disposed on the robot arm to acquire information for teaching the stocker robot using the teaching jig.

A method of teaching a robot includes: a swinging step of causing a hand to swing about a predetermined pivot, which is on an axis perpendicular to an optical axis of a sensor beam, to scan a target in a horizontal direction of the sensor beam; a determining step of determining whether or not the target has coincided with a position along a central axis of the hand in its longitudinal direction based on a detection signal of a mapping sensor, the detection signal having changed owing to the swinging of the hand; and a shifting step of, if it is determined in the determining step that the target has not coincided with the position, calculating an offset amount of the hand based on the detection signal of the mapping sensor, the detection signal having changed owing to the swinging of the hand, and causing the hand to shift to either right or left along the optical axis of the sensor beam in accordance with the calculated offset amount.

At least a first reticle is stored in a housing of a stocker. A first gas is delivered to the housing. At least one reticle pod having an additional reticle is delivered into a enclosure within the housing of the stocker. A second gas different from the first gas is delivered to the enclosure. The reticle pod is automatically retrieved from the enclosure. The delivery and retrieval of the reticle pod and delivery of the first gas and the second gas are automatically controlled.

A robot system includes a gripping section configured to grip a storing section, a first arm in which the gripping section is provided, the first arm drawing out the storing section from a shelf in which the storing section is housed, a force detecting section provided in the first arm and configured to detect force applied to the gripping section, an imaging section configured to image the storing section, and a control section configured to control the gripping section and the first arm. The control section performs control for drawing out the storing section from the shelf with the first arm and thereafter tilting the storing section with respect to the shelf with the gripping section or the first arm.

A robot system includes a gripping section configured to grip a storing section, a first arm in which the gripping section is provided, the first arm drawing out the storing section from a shelf in which the storing section is housed, a force detecting section provided in the first arm and configured to detect force applied to the gripping section, an imaging section configured to image the storing section, and a control section configured to control the gripping section and the first arm. The control section performs control for drawing out the storing section from the shelf with the first arm and thereafter tilting the storing section with respect to the shelf with the gripping section or the first arm.

An archival data storage service dispatches a first robotic device of a data storage library to perform a first task that involves moving a first data storage tape from a tape drive to a slot of the data storage library. The service select a second task to be performed by a second robotic device, which can be performed without the first robotic device causing delay of the second task. While the first robotic device is performing the first task, the archival data storage service dispatches the second robotic device to perform the second task.

A portable server assembly system includes a container structure configured to be transported between data center locations, such as a shipping container. The portable server assembly system also includes a plurality of robots that are stowed in the container when being transported between data center locations, and that assemble servers when deployed at a particular data center location. In some embodiments, when a first data center location is substantially populated with servers assembled by the portable server assembly system (or another system), the portable server assembly system is re-deployed to another data center for use in assembling servers for populating the other data center.

A robot system includes: a robotic hand configured to load and unload a workpiece into and from a cassette in which a plurality of workpieces are aligned in a first direction; a sensor configured to detect the workpiece; a transporter configured to change a relative position of the sensor with respect to the cassette in the first direction and in a second direction; and circuitry configured to: control the transporter to arrange the sensor at a first position; command the sensor to scan in the first direction, to acquire first mapping data; control the transporter to arrange the sensor at a second position by changing the relative position of the sensor in the second direction; command the sensor to scan in the first direction, to acquire second mapping data; and determine that one or more of the workpieces are inclined based on the first and second mapping data.

Disclosed is a stocker for receiving a cassette. The stocker includes a shelf for receiving a cassette, a stocker robot, a teaching jig, and a teaching unit. The stocker robot includes a robot arm configured to load the cassette in the shelf and to unload the cassette from the shelf. The teaching jig is disposed in the shelf to teach the stocker robot. The teaching unit is disposed on the robot arm to acquire information for teaching the stocker robot using the teaching jig.

A robot system includes: a robotic hand configured to load and unload a workpiece into and from a cassette in which a plurality of workpieces are aligned in a first direction; a sensor configured to detect the workpiece; a transporter configured to change a relative position of the sensor with respect to the cassette in the first direction and in a second direction; and circuitry configured to: control the transporter to arrange the sensor at a first position; command the sensor to scan in the first direction, to acquire first mapping data; control the transporter to arrange the sensor at a second position by changing the relative position of the sensor in the second direction; command the sensor to scan in the first direction, to acquire second mapping data; and determine that one or more of the workpieces are inclined based on the first and second mapping data.