Abstract: An information processing device has a control unit that acquires information relating to a fluctuation of power consumed by an electrical product operating around a user, and that estimates a product consumed by the user and a consumption quantity of the product based on the information relating to the fluctuation in the power.

Abstract: A robot system includes a self-propelled robot, a manipulating part, a display, a circumference camera that is disposed in the self-propelled robot and images a situation around the self-propelled robot, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is adapted to generate a self-propelled robot simulated image, and generate a synthesized image including a circumference situation image captured by the circumference camera and the generated self-propelled robot simulated image.

Abstract: A robot includes a self-propelled carriage, one or more robotic arms that are mounted on the carriage and allow an end effector to be attached thereto and detached therefrom, a storage that is mounted on the carriage and allows, to be stored, the end effector removed from the one or more robotic arms and the end effector to be attached to the one or more robotic arms, and a covering that is mounted on the carriage and covers the storage from above.

Abstract: A robot system includes an actuator which operates a pair of finger members so that tip-end parts of the pair of finger members approach or separate to/from each other, a control device, and a pair of claw members. A base-end part of the claw member is provided with an engaging part. The tip-end part of the finger member is provided with a to-be-engaged part which is capable of engaging with the engaging part. One of the engaging part and the to-be-engaged part has a concave shape extending in a direction from the tip-end part of one of the finger members to the tip-end part of the other finger member. The control device operates the finger members so that one of the pair of finger members and the pair of claw members are located between the other pair, and then operates the pair of finger members so that each of the pair of finger members is brought closer to the corresponding claw member to engage the to-be-engaged part with the engaging part.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A method of detecting the rate of corrosion of an existing steel structure installed in a corrosive environment is disclosed. The method includes treating a measurement surface of the member so that an AC impedance of the measurement surface, when electrochemically measured at a predetermined high frequency range of potential variation applied to the measured surface, takes a first valve within a predetermined range; and second value of the impedance is then electrochemically measured at a low frequency range of potential variation applied thereto. The difference between the first and second values is calculated to detect the corrosion-reaction resistance of the surface and the rate of corrosion is determined on the basis of the detected corrosion-reaction resistance and according to a pre-calculated relation between the rate of corrosion and the corrosion-reaction resistance.