Abstract: A mobile robot includes a mobile robot body, a drawing unit provided at the mobile robot body and including a marker configured to draw a travel locus of the mobile robot on a travel plane, and a detector provided at the mobile robot body and configured to detect the travel locus drawn by the drawing unit. The mobile robot travels along the travel locus detected by the detector.

Abstract: A mobile robot includes a mobile robot body, a drawing unit provided at the mobile robot body and including a marker configured to draw a travel locus of the mobile robot on a travel plane, and a detector provided at the mobile robot body and configured to detect the travel locus drawn by the drawing unit. The mobile robot travels along the travel locus detected by the detector.

Abstract: Provided is a moving vehicle which enables a user to easily recognize that the moving vehicle is stopped due to the user's own clothing or the like being determined as an object, thereby enabling the user to cancel the stopped state and return to a moving state. A moving vehicle on which a person rides and which stops moving if the distance to an object is equal to or less than a first predetermined value, said moving vehicle comprising: a sensor (124) for detecting the distance; a determiner (125) for determining, if the distance is equal to or less than a second predetermined value smaller than the first predetermined value, a state in which the field of view of the sensor (124) is blocked due to the clothing covering the sensor (124); and a notifier (128) that, if said state is determined by the determiner (125), issues a notification.

Abstract: A non-limiting example game system comprises a main body apparatus, and a left controller and a right controller are attachably and detachably attached to the main body apparatus. Each of the left controller and the right controller is provided with a plurality of operation buttons, an analog stick and a vibrator. A player character is provided with a radar object, and a rod-like determination object having one end that is located at a center of the character object is rotated within a plane parallel to a horizontal plane in a virtual space. When the determination object touches an enemy character, the vibrator of the left controller or/and the right controller is caused to vibrate.

Abstract: Cell culture device includes incubator unit that cultures cells in culture container, transport unit that transports culture container to incubator unit, task setting unit that sets a task relating to a culture of the cells, imaging unit serving as an example of a management information acquisition unit that acquires management information attached to culture container, and storage unit that stores the management information acquired by imaging unit. From storage unit, task setting unit reads the management information of plurality of culture containers serving as targets for carrying out the task, and causes display serving as an example of a display unit to display the management information.

Abstract: A moving body includes a frame, a pair of right and left first wheels, a pair of right and left second wheels, a pair of right and left first parallel links connecting the first wheels and the second wheels, and a second parallel link connecting the pair of right and left first parallel links. Furthermore, a height changing unit connects the second parallel link and the frame and changes a position of the frame in a height direction with respect to the second parallel link, and a controller controls the height changing unit so as to maintain a height of the frame from a road surface.

Abstract: An electrically powered wheelchair has a main frame, a seat frame, a seat back frame, a footrest frame, a wheel section, and an obstacle detection sensor. The seat frame is disposed above the main frame, and supports a sitting seat which supports buttocks and thighs of a user. The seat back frame is disposed behind the main frame, and supports a backrest which supports a back of the user. The footrest frame is disposed in front of the main frame, and supports a footrest which supports feet of the user. The wheel section movably supports the main frame. The obstacle detection sensor is installed in front of the seat frame, and detects an obstacle.

Abstract: A mobile robot capable of recognizing a position and an orientation at high accuracy according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes at least two first reflection parts having first reflection surfaces reflecting electromagnetic waves, in which the first reflection parts have a rotating body shape, having the first reflection surfaces on side surfaces, and an angle made by points passing through a rotation axis and both ends of the first reflection surface is 90 degrees or more to 360 degrees or less when the first reflection part is seen from a rotation axis direction.

Abstract: A pipette tip includes a main body section; and a straight pipe section disposed at the leading end of the main body section, in which the inner diameter of the straight pipe section is 0.8 mm to 1.5 mm inclusive, and the length of the straight pipe section is 5 mm to 15 mm inclusive.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a touch panel member that is excellent in terms of suppression of visibility of a transparent electrode and has low total reflection for visible light, and a touch panel and a touch panel display device having the touch panel member. The touch panel member of the present invention comprises, in order, at least a transparent substrate, a transparent electrode, and a protective layer provided so as to cover the transparent electrode and having a thickness of 0.04 to 10 ?m, at least part of the protective layer having a refractive index that decreases continuously from the transparent substrate side toward the side opposite to the transparent substrate, and the protective layer satisfying specific expressions.

Abstract: According to a control method for an electric vehicle of the present invention, when an electric vehicle (100) moves at a first velocity and approaches an object (200) on the basis of instructed information, the electric vehicle (100) is temporarily stopped at a position at which the distance between the electric vehicle (100) and the object (200) is a first stopping distance, after which the velocity is switched to a second velocity that is slower than the first velocity, the electric vehicle (100) is caused to approach the object (200), and the electric vehicle (100) is stopped at position at which the distance between the electric vehicle (100) and the object (200) is a second stopping distance that is shorter than the first stopping distance.

Abstract: An electrically powered wheelchair has a main frame, a seat frame, a seat back frame, a footrest frame, a wheel section, and an obstacle detection sensor. The seat frame is disposed above the main frame, and supports a sitting seat which supports buttocks and thighs of a user. The seat back frame is disposed behind the main frame, and supports a backrest which supports a back of the user. The footrest frame is disposed in front of the main frame, and supports a footrest which supports feet of the user. The wheel section movably supports the main frame. The obstacle detection sensor is installed in front of the seat frame, and detects an obstacle.

Abstract: A mobile unit which suppresses an increase in weight and/or costs and/or a decrease in reliability is disclosed. In a mobile unit capable of turning movement, a right-hand part and a left-hand part are involute shaped, and a center point of a base circle of the involute shape passes through at least one axis among center axes of turning movement.

Abstract: A method of culturing cells including: dividing a culture area into a center area and a plurality of peripheral areas, and designating the center area and the plurality of peripheral areas as measurement positions; calculating: a confluent rate at each of the measurement positions designated; and an average confluent rate which is an average of sum of the confluent rates at the measurement positions designated, the confluent rate being defined as a proportion of an area occupied by cells in a designated area; and determining a timing to perform a subculture of the cells, based on the confluent rate, wherein the determining of the timing further includes determining when the average confluent rate is smaller than a first threshold value, the confluent rate of the center area is larger than a second threshold value, and the second threshold value is larger than the first threshold value.

Abstract: A cell culture apparatus includes a measurement-position designating unit, an image processing unit, and a subculture-timing determining unit. The measurement-position designating unit designates measurement positions in the culture vessel. The image processing unit calculates a confluent rate as a proportion of an area occupied by the cells in the observation image, of the positions designated by the measurement-position designating unit. The subculture-timing determining unit determines the subculture timing of the culture vessel, based on the confluent rate calculated in the image processing unit. More specifically, the subculture-timing determining unit determines the subculture timing, based on a first threshold value with respect to an average value of the entire measurement area on the observation image, and a second threshold value with respect to at least one measurement area on the observation image. The second threshold value is larger than the first threshold value.

Abstract: A moving body includes a frame, a pair of right and left first wheels, a pair of right and left second wheels, a pair of right and left first parallel links connecting the first wheels and the second wheels, a second parallel link connecting the pair of right and left first parallel links, a height changing unit connecting the second parallel link and the frame and changing a position of the frame in a height direction with respect to the second parallel link and a controller controlling the height changing unit so as to maintain a height of the frame from a road surface.

Abstract: An apparatus for culturing cells of the present invention is an apparatus for culturing cells using a culture medium in a culture vessel. The apparatus includes: pump connected to pipet held by first holder; first shifter configured to shift first holder; second holder configured to hold culture vessel; second shifter configured to grip and shift culture vessel; and controller. Controller is programmed to, when pipet draws a liquid in culture vessel or discharges a liquid into culture vessel, control second shifter to translationally shift lid of culture vessel in a horizontal direction.

Abstract: Cell culture device includes incubator unit that cultures cells in culture container, transport unit that transports culture container to incubator unit, task setting unit that sets a task relating to a culture of the cells, imaging unit serving as an example of a management information acquisition unit that acquires management information attached to culture container, and storage unit that stores the management information acquired by imaging unit. From storage unit, task setting unit reads the management information of plurality of culture containers serving as targets for carrying out the task, and causes display serving as an example of a display unit to display the management information.