Beijing Jingdong Shangke Information Technology Co., Ltd.

Jd.com American Technologies Corporation

Wei Xi

Hui Ting Cheng

Yudong Luo

An end effector for a robotic arm. The end effector includes an angle compensator for attaching a suction cup, a vacuum control valve, a vacuum generator, a level compensator, and an extension tube which are sequentially connected along a central axis and in fluid communication, and a vacuum sensor connected to the vacuum control valve for measuring vacuum, a proximity sensor attached to the extension tubefor determining position of the level compensator. The vacuum is generated when compressed air passes the extension tube, the level compensator and the vacuum generator along the central axis. The level compensator provides compensation along the central axis.

Compliant robot end-effector and method of controlling the same

A soft package includes a package body made of a soft deformable material, and a plurality of rigid gripping components disposed at periphery or corners of the package body. Each of the rigid gripping components includes a rigid ring structure configured to be gripped by a robot device. A robot system may be used to process the soft package, by controlling a computer vision system of the robot system to capture images of the soft package, processing the images of the soft package to recognize the locations of the rigid gripping components, and controlling the robot devices of the robot system to grasp the rigid gripping components.

Soft package, robot system for processing the same, and method thereof

A robot system for processing an object to be packaged as a product, a packaging method, and a method of processing the same are provided. The object has multiple surfaces, and multiple e-package information tags are provided on the surfaces of the object for storing information of the product. Each surface is provided with one of the e-package information tags. The information of the product includes information of a location, an orientation and physical features of the object. In operation, the robot system controls a sensing device to detect and capture one of the e-package information tags on the object to obtain a captured image, and processes the captured image to obtain the information of the product. Based on the information of the product, the robot system controls a robotic grasping device to perform a robotic manipulation for handling the object.

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