Abstract: An in-vehicle device as an information processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires the latest satellite image of a region including a traveling road of a vehicle at predetermined time intervals, a detection unit that detects at least one of a change in the shape of the traveling road and an obstacle on the traveling road based on the satellite image acquired by the acquisition unit, and an output unit that outputs a detection result by the detection unit.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a satellite image acquisition section that is configured to acquire a satellite image captured by an artificial satellite; a weather information acquisition section that is configured to acquire weather information for a region corresponding to the satellite image; and an information output section that is configured to output information relating to a road surface condition for the region, which is estimated based on the satellite image and the weather information.

Abstract: An robot operation device attached to a robot having a long tool fixed to a flange provided at a distal end of the robot, the robot operation device includes a handle having an inner hole through which the tool is inserted, the handle configured to be held by one of hands of an operator in a manner that a longitudinal axis of the tool is enclosed by the one of the hands, and a sensor configured to attach the handle to the flange, the sensor detecting force or moment applied to the handle by the operator. The robot is operable by lead-through control which changes a position and posture of the robot in response to the force or the moment detected by the sensor.

Abstract: A body sheet for a vapor chamber includes a first body surface, a second body surface disposed opposite to the first body surface, and a penetration space extending from the first body surface to the second body surface. The penetration space extends in a first direction in plan view. As seen in a cross section perpendicular to the first direction, the penetration space includes a first opening positioned on the first body surface and a second opening positioned on the second body surface. The second opening extends from a region overlapping with the first opening in plan view to a position overlapping with the first groove in plan view.

Abstract: A robot is provided with a first base, a robot arm having a rotation arm member, and a second base. A bottom end portion of the first base is fixed to an upper end portion of the second base using a fixing member, the rotation arm member includes an arm member opening, the second base includes an upper surface having an upper opening and a side surface having a side opening, the rotation arm member and the first base are configured to allow the conduit containing the welding wire and introduced into an interior of the rotation arm member through the arm member opening to reach the upper opening, the side opening allows the conduit introduced into an interior of the second base through the upper opening to come out of the second base.

Abstract: A robot operating device is mounted to a robot. The robot is capable of performing a motion by means of lead-through control in which a force applied by an operator is detected and a position and an orientation are changed in accordance with the detected force and the robot operating device including: a bracket that is secured to a flange at a distal end of the robot and with which an elongated tool is attached at a decentered position with respect to a rotation axis of the flange so as to be parallel to a plane containing the rotation axis; and two handles that are secured to the bracket and that are respectively grasped by two hands of the operator, wherein the handle is disposed in the plane so as to extend in a direction along a longitudinal axis of the tool, and the handle is disposed in a vicinity of the tool so as to extend in a direction intersecting the plane.

Abstract: A robot system, including a robot having a wrist mechanism including a flange that is rotatable about a rotation axis, a welding torch fixed to the flange by a torch bracket, and a welding sensor that is fixed with respect to the welding torch and that detects a weld line, where the welding sensor is disposed at a position between the flange and a fixed position at which the welding torch is fixed to the torch bracket, the welding sensor is capable of scanning a laser beam, and the welding torch includes a tubular torch body that is arranged so as to protrude toward a distal end side than the fixed position, and makes a wire protrude from a distal end of the tubular torch body by the tubular torch body curved at least twice.

Abstract: A robot includes a base having an interior space and a first opening portion, a turning drum supported and rotatable around a predetermined rotation axis, a cable distributing board capable of being detachably fixed at a position for closing the first opening portion which is placed at a position on an extending line of the rotation axis, and an inside cable one end of which is provided with a connector fixed to the cable distributing board. The turning drum has a through hole which penetrates through the turning drum in a direction along the rotation axis. A part of the inside cable between a first cable clamp and a second cable clamp is fixed in such a manner that bending deformation and twisting deformation due to rotation of the turning drum with respect to the base are caused in the part of the inside cable.

Abstract: A robot in which two members constituting a joint shaft and supported in a relatively movable manner are each provided with a V-shaped groove having two sloped inner surfaces intersecting each other at a linear groove bottom extending orthogonally to a movement direction, or a V-shaped protrusion having two sloped outer surfaces intersecting each other at a linear ridge extending orthogonally to the movement direction. When the two members of the joint shaft are disposed in a predetermined operational position, the groove bottoms, the ridges, or the groove bottom and the ridge are disposed in alignment with each other.

Abstract: Provided is an arm structure of an industrial robot in which the same wrist element is enabled to have a plurality of types of characteristics, thus allowing a variation model to be readily implemented. An arm structure of an industrial robot with a plurality of wrist elements, the arm structure being provided with, in a housing: a first motor and a second motor that drive the plurality of wrist elements respectively; a first gear that is attached to a first output shaft of the first motor and has an external diameter equal to that of the first output shaft; and a second gear that is attached to a second output shaft of the second motor and has an external diameter equal to that of the second output shaft. The second motor is disposed in front of the first motor and is disposed such that the axis of the second output shaft is laterally offset with respect to the axis of the first output shaft. A space portion is provided to the rear of each of the first motor and the second motor.

Abstract: A workpiece support device including a base, an electrically conductive worktable rotatably supported with respect to the base, a motor, a reducer that transmits rotation of the motor to the worktable and reduces a speed of the rotation, and a metal adapter interposed between the worktable and the reducer to separate the worktable and the reducer from each other. The worktable and the adapter are electrically insulated by an insulating coating film formed by a surface treatment on a surface of the worktable or the adapter.

Abstract: Provided is an industrial robot in which a gear for causing a work tool to rotate can easily be retrofitted to a robot without requiring work to adjust backlash.

Abstract: A sensor bracket is provided with frame members supporting an acceleration sensor, the frame members having circular arc members holding an outer periphery of a tool of a robot in a state in which circumferential-direction gaps are defined in at least one portion of the circular arc members in a circumferential direction, and a bolt thread-screwed into the frame members so as to reduce the circumferential-direction gaps.

Abstract: The present invention enables simple securing of an article to be transported without requiring provision of dedicated fixtures to securing surface. A securing aid, according to the present invention, which aids in securing an article to be transported to a securing surface of a transporting means carrying out the transportation, the securing aid comprising: a first fastening structure unit for fastening to the article to be transported; and part to be pressed which is pressed by a lashing member in a state of being pressed against the securing surface by the lashing member, wherein the first fastening structure unit is fastened to the article to be transported by working with a third fastening structure unit disposed below the article to be transported.

Abstract: A robot including a robot mechanism including joints and drive units, a control unit controlling the drive units so that an inspection operation to inspect one target drive unit among the drive units is executed by the robot mechanism, and a notification unit notifying maintenance information of the target drive unit based on a current value of a motor of the target drive unit during the inspection operation, or on information associated with the current value, and the inspection operation includes transmitting, to the motor of the target drive unit, control command to rotate a joint as much as a predetermined rotation angle, and thereby moving a tip of the robot mechanism or a tool at the tip, close to an object at a predetermined position from a predetermined start position, to press the object, and separating the tip of the robot mechanism or the tool away from the object.

Abstract: A calibration method for a laser processing robot, including: fixing a jig that includes a target-site to a base of the laser processing robot; placing a laser processing tool at a position where a laser beam is scanned with respect to the target-site, the laser processing tool having a function for two-dimensionally scanning the laser beam and a function for receiving the laser beam reflected at an object and for measuring a distance to the object; measuring distances to respective portions of the target-site by scanning the laser beam; calculating a coordinate transformation function for converting a position and orientation of the target-site, which is obtained based on the measured distances to the respective portions of the target-site, into an actual position and orientation of the target-site; and correcting a tool-center-point of the laser processing tool by the coordinate transformation function.

Abstract: A robot wrist structure includes a first wrist element that is supported by a forearm in a rotatable manner about a first axis; a second wrist element that is supported by the first wrist element in a rotatable manner about a second axis that is orthogonal to the first axis; and a third wrist element that is supported by the second wrist element in a rotatable manner about a third axis that is orthogonal to the second axis and that is disposed in the same plane as the first axis. Further the second wrist element is provided with, at a position at which the second axis is included, a second axial hollow hole that passes therethrough in a direction along the second axis.

Abstract: A linear-object management structure for a robot, where a post-attached linear object is guided via the same path as a basic cable from inside a base and fixed at the position of a first fixing member, is subsequently extended forward beyond the basic cable, through a path closer to a first axis than the basic cable is, is curved in a direction along a first arm, is fixed to a side surface of the first arm, at the position of a second fixing member, such that a certain length margin required for the operation of the first arm is provided between the position of the first fixing member and the position of the second fixing member, and is guided to an upper-side movable portion along the first arm.

Abstract: A control device includes a controller. The controller detects, as an event, that a target present outside a vehicle has been overlooked by a driver of the vehicle during. The controller controls the outputting of a target image, which is an image including the target overlooked in the detected event, toward the driver.

Abstract: An industrial robot includes: a first-member and a second-member that are rotatable about a particular axis and that each have a hollow portion extending along the axis; a cylindrical member inserted into the hollow portions along the axis, and fixed to the first-member; and a wire disposed in a cylindrical gap between the cylindrical member, the first-member, and the second-member, the wire having a length that enables rotation between the first-member and the second-member and having one end fixed to the first-member and another end fixed to the second-member. The second-member includes a first-portion rotatably supported by the first-member, a second-portion that fixes the end of the wire, and a third portion serially connected between the second-portion and the first-portion, and the third portion has an inner circumferential surface that faces the gap and has been subjected to a friction reducing process.