Fanuc Corporation

Hiroaki Yamamoto

Genki Miyazaki

Wataru Murakami

Tadatoki Shimada

Kyou Sugihara

Takatoshi Iwayama

Masahiro Morioka

Harutora Inaba

Tsuyoshi Hannya

A lubricant container partis provided to a robot arm drive unitpertaining to a first armand a second armwhich displace relative to each other via a reduction mechanism, and a receiving memberhaving a recessforming a concave shape facing vertically upward is provided below the liquid levelof a lubricantinside the lubricant container part, and through this configuration, even when time elapses after stopping of the robot, the lubricant can be extracted from the receiving memberin a manner suitable for observing the state of iron powder included in the lubricant

Robot

Industrial robot

An object is prevented from being sandwiched between robot arms without the occurrence of unintentional operating restrictions of the robot arms. Provided is a robot system including: a robot body that is provided with at least two links that are relatively moved by at least one joint; a sensor that detects the distances from mutually opposed surfaces of the at least two links to an object inserted between the surfaces; and a control unit that performs an interference avoidance operation if the distances detected by the sensor are less than a predetermined threshold.

Robot system

Growing community of inventors

Yamanashi, Japan

Hiroaki Yamamoto