Abstract: A first pre-sintered body composed of a powder made of a first Ni-based alloy is prepared, and a second pre-sintered body composed of a powder made of a second Ni-based alloy is prepared. Subsequently, the first and second pre-sintered bodies are positioned to face each other across a predetermined gap, and a joining material made of a Ni-based alloy having a lower liquidus temperature than the first and second Ni-based alloys is placed in a space that adjoins the first and second pre-sintered bodies and to which the gap opens. After the placing of the joining material, the first and second pre-sintered bodies are heated to melt the joining material, fill the gap with the molten joining material, and subsequently turn the first and second pre-sintered bodies into first and second sintered bodies, respectively.

Abstract: A flight management system for a plurality of aerial vehicles includes a management apparatus and an operation terminal. The management apparatus includes processing circuitry to manage operation authorizations to operate the plurality of aerial vehicles. The operation terminal includes an operation interface and processing circuitry. The operation interface is operable by an operator. The processing circuit is connected to the operation interface. Based on an authorization grant request signal obtained based on a flight state of each aerial vehicle of the plurality of aerial vehicles, the processing circuit of the management apparatus transmits an authorization grant command to grant the operation terminal an operation authorization, among the operation authorizations, that is to operate a particular aerial vehicle among the plurality of aerial vehicles.

Abstract: A robot system includes a jacket-type sensor including a detector included in a jacket and configured to detect a touch on the jacket; and a sensor wiring-line set configured to transmit a detection result from the detector. The sensor wiring-line set is arranged inside the robot arm.

Abstract: A triple containment tank includes an outer tank, an intermediate tank located in the outer tank, an inner tank located in the intermediate tank and storing a liquefied gas therein, and a pipe penetrating the outer tank, the intermediate tank, and the inner tank. The pipe is coupled to the outer tank through a first expandable pipe, is coupled to one of the inner tank and the intermediate tank through a second expandable pipe, and is joined to the other of the inner tank and the intermediate tank.

Abstract: A molding device includes: a lower mold that supports a workpiece containing a thermoplastic resin and that is heated to a first predetermined temperature; an upper mold that is opposed to the lower mold, that presses the workpiece, and that is heated to a second predetermined temperature; a transferer that moves the lower mold and the upper mold relative to each other in a transfer direction of the workpiece; and control circuitry. The lower mold includes temperature-controlled regions adjacent to one another in the transfer direction, the temperature-controlled regions including a first lower mold temperature-controlled region and a second lower mold temperature-controlled region having a temperature lower than a temperature of the first lower mold temperature-controlled region. The control circuitry changes proportions of the first and second lower mold temperature-controlled regions in the lower mold as a function of a relative position between the upper and lower molds.

Abstract: A transfer robot transfers workpieces while sucking upper surfaces of the workpieces. The transfer robot includes a first hand body attached to a first robotic arm, a second hand body attached to a second robotic arm, a first suction part attached to the first hand body, and a second suction part attached to the second hand body. The first suction part has a pair of suction bodies, the pair of suction bodies extending in a horizontal first direction and separated from each other in a horizontal second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The second suction part has at least one suction body extending in the first direction, and the one suction body is changeable in an entering amount into an area between the pair of suction parts of the first suction part according to a relative movement of the second hand body in the first direction.

Abstract: A skill transfer mechanical apparatus includes an operating part, a controller, a motion information detector and an operation apparatus. The controller includes a basic motion instructing module, a learning module, a motion correcting instruction generator, a motion correcting instruction, and a motion information storing module. The learning module carries out machine learning of the motion correcting instruction stored in the motion correcting instruction storing module by using the motion information stored in the motion information storing module, and after the machine learning is finished, accepts an input of the motion information during the operation of the operating part, and outputs the automatic motion correcting instruction. The operating part moves the working part according to an automatic motion instruction based on the basic motion instruction and the automatic motion correcting instruction, and the manual motion correction.

Abstract: An intermediation device and an intermediating method, capable of improving public interest in an industrial robot compared to before, are provided. The intermediation device is adapted to execute processings of receiving, from at least two manipulation terminals, or from at least one manipulation terminal and at least one computer, manipulation signals for manipulating at least two industrial robots each corresponding to the manipulation terminal or the computer and configured to perform a given work or a given game, causing the at least two industrial robots to perform the given work or the given game based on the manipulation signals, and causing a display unit held by an operator of the manipulation terminal to display an image of a site of the work or the game performed by the at least two industrial robots, the image being captured by an imaging device.

Abstract: A hydraulic pump performance deterioration detection system according to one embodiment includes: a variable displacement hydraulic pump; a switching valve that is connected to the hydraulic pump by a pump line and to a hydraulic actuator by a supply/discharge line; and a regulator that changes a displacement of the hydraulic pump in accordance with a command current and that limits the displacement of the hydraulic pump to a limiting value when a delivery pressure of the hydraulic pump has become higher than a setting value. The performance deterioration detection system further includes: control circuitry that feeds the command current to the regulator; and a pressure sensor that measures the delivery pressure of the hydraulic pump. When the hydraulic actuator is not moving, the control circuitry determines whether or not performance of the hydraulic pump has deteriorated based on a current value of the command current and the delivery pressure of the hydraulic pump measured by the pressure sensor.

Abstract: A thermoelectric power generation system 20 includes a heat exchanger 1 having double tubes which are an inner tube 1a and an outer tube 1b, and a thermoelectric power generation module 2 mounted between the inner tube and the outer tube. The thermoelectric power generation module generates thermoelectric power using a temperature difference between a medium inside the inner tube and a medium outside the outer tube, and a highly thermal conductive elastic sheet 3a, 3b is mounted between the thermoelectric power generation module and the inner tube and/or the outer tube in close contact therewith.

Abstract: Portable cargo handling equipment for liquid hydrogen is portable cargo handling equipment for liquid hydrogen which transfers the liquid hydrogen stored in a land-side cryogenic tank to a ship-side cryogenic tank.

Abstract: A robot system includes a robot body, a memory, an operation controlling module and a manipulator. When the robot body is located at a first position, the operation controlling module stops the robot body and receives a selecting manipulation of operation mode from the manipulator. When a correctable automatic mode is selected at the first position, the operation controlling module makes positional coordinates of a second position provided downstream of the first position in a moving direction, changeable from the second position in automatic operation information. When the positional coordinates of the second position are changed, the operation controlling module corrects the automatic operation information so that the robot body reaches the changed second position while retaining some of elements of the automatic operation information in the correctable automatic mode.

Abstract: A robot hand includes base body defining gripping position of substrate, first contacting part provided to base body at tip-end side and configured to contact first part of edge part of substrate when substrate is gripped, rotary body provided on base-end side of base body and having second contacting part configured to contact second part of edge part of substrate when substrate is gripped, and mobile body having shaft part to be inserted into shaft hole of rotary body, and configured to move toward tip end of base body to move rotary body toward tip end of the base body. An axial-center line of shaft part extends in thickness directions of base and rotary bodies provided so as to have clearance in axial direction of shaft part with respect to shaft part.

Abstract: An underwater work system of the present disclosure acquires a relative position of an underwater vehicle relative to a surface ship at the start of searching work, the relative position being measured based on a sound wave transmitted from a wave transmitter. The underwater work system calculates a position of the underwater vehicle based on the acquired relative position. When a measurement error region whose center corresponds to the calculated position of the underwater vehicle and an expected laid region of a pipeline extending in a predetermined direction overlap each other, the underwater work system moves the underwater vehicle to such a position that the measurement error region and the expected laid region do not overlap each other, and then, makes the underwater vehicle perform crossing detection in which the underwater vehicle detects the presence or absence of the pipeline while crossing the expected laid region.

Abstract: An AUV includes: an underwater vehicle main body configured to sail along an inspection object located in water or on the bottom of the water; an arm extending from the underwater vehicle main body; an inspection tool portion including a contact portion configured to contact the inspection object and an inspection device configured to inspect the inspection object; and a passive joint provided between the arm and the inspection tool portion and configured to allow passive rotation of the inspection tool portion relative to the arm about at least one axis.

Abstract: A lubrication device for a helicopter including: an oil sump in which oil for lubrication is retained; a lubrication pump configured to suck the oil from the oil sump to discharge the oil; and a lubrication passage extending from the lubrication pump to a first lubrication target. The lubrication passage includes: a first supply port that supplies the oil to the first lubrication target; an oil reservoir provided upstream of the first supply port; and an opening provided upstream of the oil reservoir and above the oil reservoir. The first supply port is formed right above the first lubrication target.

Abstract: A training processing device manages a training for a robot manipulation using a manipulation terminal. The training processing device communicates information with the manipulation terminal through a communication network, accepts first information that is information on the robot manipulation inputted into the manipulation terminal, while the manipulation terminal executing a computer program for the training of the robot manipulation, and manages the training based on the first information.

Abstract: A surgical robot includes a manipulator arm having a tip end side to which a surgical instrument is attached, a controller configured or programmed to perform a control to operate the manipulator arm to which the surgical instrument is attached, and a teaching unit to teach a teaching point in a space in which the manipulator arm operates. The controller is configured or programmed to set a virtual contact prohibited space in a space around a contact prohibited object based on a plurality of the teaching points taught using the teaching unit.

Abstract: A robotic surgical system includes a controller configured or programmed to perform an arm interference avoidance control to move a second manipulator arm relative to a first manipulator arm such that a reference line moves along an outer edge of an approach prohibited range of a first manipulator arm when a second manipulator arm approaches within the approach prohibited range.

Abstract: A robot includes a base attached to an end of a robotic arm, a conveyor fixed to the base, and a holder to hold a workpiece and place the workpiece on a transferring surface of the conveyor. The holder includes a pivot shaft extending along the conveyor in a transferring direction of the conveyor, and reciprocatable or telescopic in the transferring direction, a pivoting structure attached to the pivot shaft so as to be reciprocatable in the transferring direction, and pivotable centering on the pivot shaft in a plane in which a width direction perpendicular to the transferring direction intersects with a height direction perpendicular to the transferring direction and the width direction, and a holding structure upstream of the pivoting part in the transferring direction to hold the workpiece.