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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2013
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Toshihiko Mimura, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Arai, Saitama, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 15/00 (2006.01); G05B 19/00 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 13/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/1697 (2013.01); B25J 13/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided is a small-sized robot device having high versatility without decreasing the work efficiency. The robot device includes: an arm; a hand or a tweezer tool that includes a stereo camera for measuring a three-dimensional position of a workpiece, the hand or the tweezer tool performing a work with respect to the workpiece whose three-dimensional position has been measured by the stereo camera; and a connection portion or a hand provided at a distal end of the arm, the connection portion or the hand releasably connecting the hand or the tweezer tool to the arm.