Abstract: A robotic system includes: a robot configured to perform a predetermined operation; and a controller configured to receive direct teaching of teaching an operational objective for the robot manually by a user and control the operation of the robot. The controller executes an adjustment control of adjusting a parameter to determine a manipulation feeling in the direct teaching, and is configured to, in the adjustment control: acquire, on the basis of a result of causing the user to conduct a specific task operation manually with respect to the robot, the parameter concerning the manipulation feeling and a predetermined evaluation index; calculate, on the basis of the evaluation index, a score being a mechanical evaluation value for the task operation and presenting the score to the user; and change the parameter depending on a subjective evaluation about the manipulation feeling by the user.

Abstract: An assistance device is a device that assists in creating setting data about control of a robot equipped with a robot arm including arm elements and joint parts. The assistance device includes a display unit and a control unit that controls the display unit. The control unit performs an acquisition process and a display process. The control unit acquires data of joint acting force indicating force acting on each of the plurality of joint parts and data of specific point acting force indicating force acting on a specific point at the distal end of the robot arm in the acquisition process. The control unit controls the display unit to display a joint acting force waveform indicating a temporal change in each joint acting force and a specific point acting force waveform indicating a temporal change in the specific point acting force in the display process.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes: a first electrode containing silicon; a second electrode that contacts an upper surface of the first electrode; a third electrode that is provided above the second electrode; an oxide semiconductor that contacts an upper surface of the second electrode and extends in a first direction from the second electrode toward the third electrode; an insulating film that is provided on a side surface of the oxide semiconductor; and a first conductor that contacts at least a part of the insulating film, in which the second electrode includes a second conductor that contains a conductive oxide and contacts a lower surface of the oxide semiconductor, and a third conductor that is provided between the second conductor and the first electrode and contains a compound having titanium and silicon.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first conductor layer; a second conductor layer; an oxide semiconductor layer provided between the first conductor layer and the second conductor layer; a gate electrode provided next to the oxide semiconductor layer; and a gate insulating film provided between the gate electrode and the oxide semiconductor layer. The oxide semiconductor layer includes at least one of indium, gallium, zinc, aluminum, tin, titanium, silicon, germanium, copper, arsenic, and tungsten and oxygen and includes a first end and a second end. The first conductor layer includes indium, tin, oxygen, and a first element that is at least one of nitrogen, sulfur, selenium, tellurium, hafnium, tantalum, tungsten, rhenium, osmium, iridium, bismuth, lanthanum, yttrium, zinc, cadmium, and mercury. The first end of the oxide semiconductor layer is in contact with the first conductor layer.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a first capacitor including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a first capacitor insulating film provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a first transistor including a first oxide semiconductor layer electrically connected to the second electrode and extending in a first direction, a first gate electrode provided next to the first oxide semiconductor layer, and a third electrode electrically connected to the first oxide semiconductor layer and provided on the opposite side of the second electrode. The second electrode includes a first portion, a second portion provided between the first portion and the first oxide semiconductor layer, and a third portion provided between the second portion and the first oxide semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a first oxide semiconductor in contact with the first electrode at one end of the first oxide semiconductor, the first oxide semiconductor extending in a first direction that intersects with a surface of the first electrode, a first insulator surrounding a side surface of the first oxide semiconductor, a first conductor surrounding at least a part of a side surface of the first insulator, a second conductor in contact with another end of the first oxide semiconductor, a third conductor on the second conductor, and a fourth conductor on the third conductor. The third conductor and the fourth conductor include a first metallic element, and the second conductor and the third conductor include oxygen.

Abstract: A robot causes an image capturing device to capture an image of a container in which a plurality of targets are placed to overlap in part with one another, the plurality of targets including components whose types are different from each other among the component and a component kit in which two or more of the components are assembled with one another, detects types, positions and poses of the plurality of targets based on the captured image captured by the image capturing device, determines a priority order of one or more of component kits being assembled using the targets placed in the container according to the detected types, the detected positions and the detected poses, and assembles the component kit selected based on the determined priority order.

Abstract: A three-dimensional shape measurement device includes a controller, in which the controller starts a process in which a plurality of different phase pattern images is projected by a projector, whenever the phase pattern image is projected by the projector before a rising time elapses, the rising time being a time until the luminance of light does not temporally change after a light source of the projector applies the light, and measures a three-dimensional shape of a target object onto which the phase pattern image is projected on the basis of a captured image obtained by the camera after the process is performed.

Abstract: A robot system includes a robot including a robot arm and a first camera, a second camera installed separately from the robot, and a control device which controls the robot and the second camera. The first camera has already been calibrated in advance, and a first calibration data which is the calibration data between the coordinate system of the robot and the coordinate system of the first camera is known. The control device (i) images a calibration pattern with the first camera to acquire a first pattern image and images a calibration pattern with the second camera to acquire a second pattern image, and (ii) executes calibration process for obtaining a second calibration data which is the calibration data between the coordinate system of the robot and the coordinate system of the second camera using the first pattern image, the second pattern image, and the first calibration data.

Abstract: A robot includes: a hand; and a control unit that operates the hand, in which the control unit generates three-dimensional point group information for a partial image forming a captured image obtained by an imaging unit, and causes the hand to hold an object included in the partial image.

Abstract: For accurate housing of an object to be packed even in an unfixed box body, a packing apparatus includes a movable unit and a force detection part provided in the movable unit and houses an object to be packed in a box body formed from a packing material based on an output value of the force detection part.

Abstract: A robot system includes a robot including a robot arm and a first camera, a second camera installed separately from the robot, and a control device which controls the robot and the second camera. The first camera has already been calibrated in advance, and a first calibration data which is the calibration data between the coordinate system of the robot and the coordinate system of the first camera is known. The control device (i) images a calibration pattern with the first camera to acquire a first pattern image and images a calibration pattern with the second camera to acquire a second pattern image, and (ii) executes calibration process for obtaining a second calibration data which is the calibration data between the coordinate system of the robot and the coordinate system of the second camera using the first pattern image, the second pattern image, and the first calibration data.

Abstract: A robot causes an image capturing device to capture an image of a container in which a plurality of targets are placed to overlap in part with one another, the plurality of targets including components whose types are different from each other among the component and a component kit in which two or more of the components are assembled with one another, detects types, positions and poses of the plurality of targets based on the captured image captured by the image capturing device, determines a priority order of one or more of component kits being assembled using the targets placed in the container according to the detected types, the detected positions and the detected poses, and assembles the component kit selected based on the determined priority order.

Abstract: A technique for establishing a network interface and an external interface in a connector is disclosed. A personal computer (PC) includes a device controller for controlling data transmission with a peripheral device and a network device, and a receptacle including multiple pins for connecting data channels of the device controller to the peripheral device through the external interface and the network device through the network interface. The PC further includes a crossbar switch for switching the data channels to establish the external interface and the network interface in the receptacle. The external interface complies with the USB standards, and the network interface complies with the Ethernet standards.

Abstract: A three-dimensional shape measurement device includes a controller, in which the controller starts a process in which a plurality of different phase pattern images is projected by a projector, whenever the phase pattern image is projected by the projector before a rising time elapses, the rising time being a time until the luminance of light does not temporally change after a light source of the projector applies the light, and measures a three-dimensional shape of a target object onto which the phase pattern image is projected on the basis of a captured image obtained by the camera after the process is performed.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes a projection unit configured to project a first pattern onto an object; and a selection unit configured to select a single first pattern from a plurality of first patterns. After the projection unit projects each of the plurality of first patterns having different resolutions onto the object, the projection unit projects a second pattern onto the object, the second pattern having the same resolution as that of the selected single first pattern.

Abstract: A robot, wherein the robot operates on the basis of a picked-up image of at least a part of a work space of the robot picked up by an image pickup section, and a transparent member is disposed between the robot and the work space of the robot.

Abstract: A technique for establishing a network interface and an external interface in a connector is disclosed. A personal computer (PC) includes a device controller for controlling data transmission with a peripheral device and a network device, and a receptacle including multiple pins for connecting data channels of the device controller to the peripheral device through the external interface and the network device through the network interface. The PC further includes a crossbar switch for switching the data channels to establish the external interface and the network interface in the receptacle. The external interface complies with the USB standards, and the network interface complies with the Ethernet standards.

Abstract: A robot includes: a hand; and a control unit that operates the hand, in which the control unit generates three-dimensional point group information for a partial image forming a captured image obtained by an imaging unit, and causes the hand to hold an object included in the partial image.

Abstract: A robot includes: a hand; and a control unit that operates the hand, in which the control unit generates three-dimensional point group information for a partial image forming a captured image obtained by an imaging unit, and causes the hand to hold an object included in the partial image.