Abstract: This box assembling and packing system is provided: a first jig which is fixed at a predetermined position and against which a side part of a body of a packing box is thrust; a second jig which is fixed at a predetermined position and against which a flap part and a tuck part of the packing box are thrust; and a robot having two articulated arms. A first articulated arm of the two articulated arms holds and moves the packing box in a flatly collapsed form by a packing box holding mechanism, folds and raises the body of the flatly collapsed packing box into a rectangular tubular shape in cooperation with the first jig, and maintains the folded and raised body of the packing box in the rectangular tubular shape by a packing box rectangular tubular shape maintaining mechanism.

Abstract: A sample treatment system includes a robot that includes a main body with a plurality of arms and a plurality of hand tools to be detachably attached to the plurality of arms, and a treatment instrument for treating a sample is disposed within the reach of the hand tools attached to the plurality of arms. The robot selects and puts on suitable hand tools according to a treatment to be performed on a sample to treat the sample.