Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Kawasaki Robotics Gmbh

Masayuki Kamon

Yasuhiko Hashimoto

Shigetsugu Tanaka

Nobuyasu Shimomura

Yoshihiko Maruyama

Hiroki Takahashi

Jun Fujimori

Hideyuki Ryu

Hiroki Kinoshita

Junichi Karasuyama

Tsuyoshi Maehara

Takuya Shitaka

Hirokazu Sugiyama

Hitoshi Hasunuma

Kenji Noguchi

So Yukizaki

Kai Shimizu

Yasushi Kurosawa

Masahiko Akamatsu

Takanori Kozuki

Soichi Tamada

Eiichi Yagi

Yuki Tanaka

Yuuki Takayama

Kenji Kitani

Tetsuya Yoshida

Atsushi Kameyama

Shingo Yonemoto

Shogo Hasegawa

Yuki Takayama

Toshihiko Takagi

Hidenori Tani

Sadao Kubo

Noboru Takagi

Tomofumi Okamoto

Tomoki Oka

Miu Suzuki

A remote control device includes: a first arm; a second arm connected to a tip-end part of the first arm; two rotary bodies disposed at a tip of the second arm; a link structure including link members fixed to the two rotary bodies; and a user interface attached to the link structure. The two rotary bodies are independently and rotatably supported by respective coaxial drive shafts. The user interface is pivotable, with respect to the second arm, on each of mutually-perpendicular three axes passing through a center point of the link structure. The link structure is disposed at the lateral side of the rotary bodies so that the center point is located on an axis of the two drive shafts. The user interface is attached to the link structure on an axis of a rotation shaft passing through the center point.

Remote control device

A robot system includes a plurality of self-propelled robots, each including an autonomously travelable carriage and a robotic arm mounted on the carriage, and a single manipulation console that is operated by an operator to allow the operator to manually operate the plurality of self-propelled robots. The plurality of self-propelled robots include a first self-propelled robot that performs a given first work, and a second self-propelled robot that performs a given second work different in kind from the first work.

Robot system and robot working method

A master-slave system includes a master unit, a slave unit, and a control device. The control device includes first circuitry that determines a first relationship that is a relationship between a slave coordinate system and an object coordinate system, second circuitry that determines a second relationship that is a relationship between a master coordinate system and the object coordinate system, and third circuitry that outputs an operational command for causing the slave unit to operate according to operational information of the master unit, the first relationship, and the second relationship. When the object coordinate system is moved, the first circuitry newly determines the first relationship after the movement based on the moved object coordinate system and the slave coordinate system, and the second-circuitry determines the second relationship after the movement, as a relationship similar to the second relationship before the movement.

Master-slave system and controlling method

A robot system () includes a slave unit () including a slave arm () having a working end (), a slave arm actuator () configured to drive the slave arm, and a slave-side controller () configured to control the slave arm actuator based on a slave operating command for defining a target position of the working end, a master unit () including a master arm () having a manipulation end () into which the content of manipulation is inputted by an operator, and a system controller () configured to generate the slave operating command based on the content of manipulation inputted into the manipulation end. When a command corresponding to the content of manipulation is a command corresponding to a limit equivalent range corresponding to a limit of operation of at least one of the slave arm and the master arm, the system controller performs processing to give perception to the operator.

Robot system and method of controlling the robot system

An intermediation device () constitutes a manipulation signal converting module in the intermediation device () or a manipulation terminal (). When the manipulation signal converting module receives a plurality of manipulation signals respectively corresponding to a plurality of manipulation keys, the manipulation signal converting module converts the plurality of manipulation signals into a plurality of individual operating commands, and sends the plurality of individual operating commands to a robot ().

Intermediation device and intermediating method using the same

A control device includes: first circuitry that generates a command to cause a robot to autonomously grind a grinding target portion; second circuitry that generates a command to cause the robot to grind a grinding target portion according to manipulation information from an operation device; third circuitry that controls operation of the robot according to the command; storage that stores image data of a grinding target portion and operation data of the robot corresponding to the command; and forth circuitry that performs machine learning by using image data of a grinding target portion and the operation data for the grinding target portion, receives the image data as input data, and outputs an operation correspondence command corresponding to the operation data as output data. The first circuitry generates the command, based on the operation correspondence command.

Control device, control system, robot system, and control method

A spherical joint of the present disclosure includes a ball member and a socket having an inner circumferential surface configured to spherically contact the ball member. The socket includes a cage part forming the inner circumferential surface and having an opening, and a bar-shaped connecting part provided to the cage part. A fastening member is disposed at the cage part so as to reduce a space of the opening in the extending direction of the connecting part and such that a gap is formed between the fastening member and the ball member. The opening is formed in a part of the inner circumferential surface other than a part where the largest load is applied.

Spherical joint and joint structure for robot having the same

A diagnosis/treatment support robot includes a surgical manipulator that is remotely manipulated by an operator. The surgical manipulator includes a robotic arm. The robotic arm includes an instrument mount at a tip thereof. A surgical instrument for surgery of a patient is attached to the instrument mount. An auxiliary instrument is attachable to the instrument mount. The auxiliary instrument is an instrument other than the surgical instrument. The auxiliary instrument is an instrument for at least either one of an auxiliary practice of a diagnosis of an infectious disease or an auxiliary practice of a treatment of the infectious disease for a target person.

Diagnosis/treatment support robot, diagnosis/treatment support robot system, and diagnosis/treatment support method

A secondary battery unit includes a first secondary battery module disposed at at least either one of a front part or a back part of a body of a humanoid robot, a second secondary battery module disposed around the body in a direction intersecting with a front-and-rear direction of the body, and a base coupling the first secondary battery module to the second secondary battery module. The base is detachably attached to the body, together with the first secondary battery module and the second secondary battery module.

Secondary battery unit and humanoid robot

An intermediation device () receives, from a plurality of robots (), recruitments of remote workers who operate the plurality of robots () and perform a plurality of works. The intermediation device () posts the recruitments of the remote workers who perform the plurality of works on a site on a network () of an intermediary who holds the intermediation device (). When the plurality of remote workers access the site from a plurality of manipulation terminals () and send a plurality of applications for the recruitments of the remote workers who perform the plurality of works, the intermediation device () selects, based on the plurality of applications, one or more robots () and one or more manipulation terminals () as one or more selected robots () and one or more selected manipulation terminals (). The intermediation device () connects the one or more selected manipulation terminals () to the one or more selected robots () so that the one or more selected robots () are manipulatable by the one or more selected manipulation terminals ().

A robot system includes a robot installed in a work area and controlled by a second control device, a 3D camera operated by an operator, a sensor that is disposed in a manipulation area that is a space different from the work area, and wirelessly detects position information and posture information on the 3D camera, a display, and a first control device. The first control device acquires image information on a workpiece imaged by the 3D camera, acquires, from the sensor, the position information and the posture information when the workpiece is imaged by the 3D camera, displays the acquired image information on the display, forms a three-dimensional model of the workpiece based on the image information, and the acquired position information and posture information, displays the formed three-dimensional model on the display, and outputs first data that is data of the formed three-dimensional model to the second control device.

Robot system and method of forming three-dimensional model of workpiece

An imaging system includes: an unmanned flight vehicle; an imager that is mounted on the unmanned flight vehicle and takes an image of a robot which performs work with respect to a target object; a display structure which is located away from the unmanned flight vehicle and displays the image taken by the imager to a user who manipulates the robot; and circuitry which controls operations of the imager and the unmanned flight vehicle. The circuitry acquires operation related information that is information related to an operation of the robot. The circuitry moves the unmanned flight vehicle such that a position and direction of the imager are changed so as to correspond to the operation related information.

Imaging system and robot system

A robot () includes a resistance circuit () configured or programmed to perform a control to reduce a braking force of a dynamic brake by changing a resistance value of a resistance component () with respect to a power supply path () when motors () are stopped at an abnormal stop.

Robot, humanoid robot, and robot fall control method

A robot system () of the present disclosure includes a robot () installed in a workarea (), an interface (), a display (), and a control device (). When operating the robot () to perform a kind of work defined beforehand to a workpiece () based on manipulational command information on the robot () inputted from the interface (), the control device () displays on the display () a spatial relationship between the workpiece () and the robot () in a state where the workpiece and the robot are seen from a direction different from a direction in which an operator looks at the robot () from a manipulation area () that is a space different from the workarea (), based on three-dimensional model information on the workpiece (), three-dimensional model information on the robot (), and the manipulational command information.

Robot system

A robot system includes a robot body configured to perform a work, a robot controlling module configured to control operation of the robot body according to an operator command, a manipulator configured to send the operator command to the robot controlling module according to manipulation by an operator, a motivation information acquiring module configured to acquire motivation information for motivating the operator so that the operator increases an amount of work or a speed of work of the robot body, and a motivation information presenter configured to present to the operator the motivation information acquired by the motivation information acquiring module.

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Akashi, Japan

Masayuki Kamon