Abstract: A surgery manipulator arm according to an embodiment may include an arm body and a translation mechanism provided to a distal end portion of the arm body. The translation mechanism includes: a proximal side unit connected to the distal end portion of the arm body; a distal side unit including a tool holding part to which a surgical tool is attached; a connection unit connecting the proximal and distal side units; and an electrical wiring circuit electrically connecting the proximal and distal side units. The connection unit includes first and second pulleys; and a belt member wound around the first and second pulleys. The proximal and distal side units are attached to first and second attachment positions of the belt member such that the distal side unit moves in a direction opposite to a direction in which the proximal side unit moves in association with movements of the belt member.

Abstract: An articulated robot includes a pedestal and two or more modules supported by the pedestal. Each of the two or more modules includes a support member, a link member supported by the support member to be rotatable about a first axis, and a first drive unit provided in the link member and for rotating the link member about the first axis with respect to the support member.

Abstract: A robot system includes a manipulating force detector configured to detect a manipulating force given to an operation end by an operator, a reaction-force detector configured to detect a reaction force given to a work end or a workpiece held by the work end, a system controller configured to generate an operating command of a master arm and generate an operating command of a slave arm based on the manipulating force and the reaction force, a master-side control part configured to control the master arm, and a slave-side control part configured to control the slave arm. The system controller has an exaggerated expresser configured to exaggeratedly present an operating feel to the operator who operates the operation end in a reaction-force sudden change state that is a state in which the reaction force changes rapidly with time.

Abstract: A lead wire insertion method for inserting a lead wire of an electronic component with a lead wire into a through hole formed in the wiring board includes a third step of placing a jig on the wiring board so that one side surface of the jig faces the another electronic component, and a bottom side end of an inner wall of a guide hole of the jig is fitted to a through hole formed in the wiring board, in which the guide hole is opened and formed in the one side surface of the jig so that a cross-sectional area becomes smaller from a top surface to a bottom surface.

Abstract: This nursing bed has a fixed member forming a fixed bed surface of a bed portion on which a care receiver lies, a movable member which can be moved relative to the fixed member and forms a movable bed surface of the bed portion, and a movable member driving unit for driving the movable member. The fixed member has a plurality of slender parts each extending in the lateral direction or the longitudinal direction. The movable member has a mobile body which can be protruded upward relative to the fixed bed surface and also moved in at least one of the longitudinal direction and the lateral direction via an interval between the plurality of slender parts by the movable member driving unit. The posture of the care receiver lying on the bed can be changed into his/her optimal position without difficulty.

Abstract: A wrist of a robot arm includes a proximal end side connecting body, a first wrist link that rotates about a first wrist axis, a second wrist link that rotates about a second wrist axis, a distal end side connecting body that rotates about a third wrist axis and is connected to an end effector, and a wrist drive device including a drive source and interlock device. The interlock device causes the second wrist link to rotate by ?2?° about the second wrist axis and causes the distal end side connecting body to rotate by ?° when the first wrist link rotates by arbitrary ?° from a state where the first and third wrist axis overlap. Extending directions of the first, second, and third wrist axis are parallel to a predetermined plane, and a distance from the first to second and from the second to third wrist axis are equal.

Abstract: A robot main body having a robotic arm, a remote control device which includes a robotic arm operational instruction input part installed outside of a working area and by which an operational instruction for the robotic arm is inputted, and a contactless action detecting part configured to detect a contactless action including at least one given operating condition parameter change instructing action by an operator, a control device communicably connected to the remote control device and configured to control operation of the robot main body.

Abstract: Robot system which includes a master device configured to receive an operating instruction from an operator, slave arm, storage device configured to store operating sequence information that defines processing carried out by slave arm, and control device configured to control operation of slave arm. Control device includes a receiver configured to receive an input signal, motion controller configured to determine whether operating mode of slave arm is to be automatic, manual or correctable automatic mode and control operation of slave arm in determined operating mode, and continuation determinator configured to determine whether continuation of automatic mode is permitted. In a process at which slave arm is scheduled to operate in automatic mode, after motion controller suspends operation of slave arm in automatic mode at a given step of process, continuation determinator determines whether continuation of automatic mode is permitted based on input signal received by receiver when operation is suspended.

Abstract: A robot and crane cooperative work system, includes a robot including a hand and an arm which are capable of treating a workpiece or to which a tool is mountable; and a crane which moves the workpiece or the robot, while suspending the workpiece or the robot by the crane, the robot treats the workpiece or the robot in such a manner that the robot operates the hand and the arm to attach the workpiece or the robot to the crane or detach the workpiece or the robot from the crane, the crane moves the workpiece or the robot, and the robot processes the workpiece.

Abstract: A patient-side apparatus of a surgical system according to an embodiment may include: manipulator arms with multi-degree of freedom, each of which includes a distal end portion provided with a tool holding part configured to hold an elongated surgical tool; an arm base to which base end portions of the manipulator arms are attached; a base; and a positioner that includes links and joints to connect the base and the arm base such that the positioner movably holds the arm base. The links include a first link that is connected to a central portion of the arm base in a longitudinal direction of the arm base with a first roll joint arranged between the first link and the arm base. The positioner holds the arm base such that a first rotation axis of the first roll joint is inclined with respect to both a vertical direction and a horizontal plane.

Abstract: A medical manipulator according to one or more embodiments may include: a first manipulator arm with multi-degree of freedom that holds a medical tool at a distal end portion thereof; a second manipulator arm with multi-degree of freedom that holds a medical tool at a distal end portion thereof; an arm base that holds base end portions of the first and second manipulator arms; a movement mechanism configured to move the base end portion of the first manipulator arm with respect to the arm base to change a distance between the base end portion of the first manipulator arm and the base end portion of the second manipulator arm; and a positioner configured to move the arm base and position the arm base in place.

Abstract: The end effector has a first hand and a second hand which can be driven independently from each other. The first hand has a hand body which can be inserted between vertically adjacent substrates stored in a substrate storing portion, holding a substrate immediately above or immediately below the hand body. The second hand has a hand base portion which at least partially advances below a lowermost substrate or above an uppermost substrate of a plurality of substrates stored in a substrate storing portion and a substrate holding means provided to the hand base portion so as to hold two or more substrates including the lowermost substrate or the uppermost substrate. By the end effector, substrates can be conveyed without any problem even when use of a batch conveying type hand is restricted due to the condition on the substrate storing portion side.

Abstract: A holding device for food includes a second posture detecting part configured to detect that all the plurality of foods fed to the given positions are in the second posture, and a control part configured to control operation of the second holding part to hold the plurality of foods in the second posture so that the foods are piled up in the given direction, when the second posture detecting part detects that all the plurality of foods are in the second posture at the given positions.

Abstract: The method includes urging a customer a selection of a base robot that becomes a base of the robot by communicating electronic data, receiving the selection of the base robot, extracting variable specification items of the selected base robot based on information related to variable specifications among a given basic specification of the base robot from a variable specification database, determining a special order specification in which at least one of the variable specification items is changed from the basic specification, searching the information related to component parts of the base robot and parts attachable to the base robot for parts that constitute the robot so that the special order specification is realized, presenting to the customer a virtual object of the robot where the searched parts are mounted to the base robot, urging the customer an input of an order for the robot, and receiving the order for the robot and accepting the order for the robot.

Abstract: A robot system includes a work robot, a dialogue robot, and a communication device configured to communicate information between the dialogue robot and the work robot. The work robot includes a progress status reporting module configured to transmit to the dialogue robot, during the work, progress status information including operation process identification information that identifies currently-performed operation process, and a degree of progress of the operation process.

Abstract: A holding device for food includes a right hand part configured to hold the food in a first posture where a first surface part is oriented horizontally, and to be changeable the posture of the food from the first posture into a second posture where a second surface part is oriented horizontally, a right arm (food feeding part) configured to sequentially feed the food held in the second posture by the first holding part to a given position, a left hand part (second holding part) configured to hold a plurality of foods fed to the given position in the second posture, the foods being held so as to be laterally piled up in a given direction, and a left arm (food accommodating part) configured to accommodate the plurality of foods held by the left hand part into a given container.

Abstract: An end effector has a hand base portion at least a part of which advances below a lowermost substrate or above an uppermost substrate of a plurality of substrates stored in a substrate storing portion, a substrate holding unit provided to the hand base portion so as to hold the two or more substrates including the lowermost substrate or the uppermost substrate, and a protrusion amount change unit for changing a protrusion amount of the substrate holding unit from a reference surface including the surface of the hand base portion opposed to the lowermost substrate or the uppermost substrate. The protrusion amount change unit has a single drive source applying a drive force to the whole substrate holding unit.

Abstract: A transferring system includes a robot including a first arm having a first grip part and a second arm having a second grip part, a transferring device including a pair of to-be-gripped parts a pair of holding parts configured to hold a workpiece, and an elevator configured to ascend and descend the holding part, and a control device configured to control the robot and the transferring device. The control device operates the elevator so that the to-be-gripped parts move to a first position that is a position at which the first grip part or the second grip part is able to grip the to-be-gripped part, when causing the pair of holding parts to hold the workpiece.

Abstract: A wafer transfer apparatus is provided. In a minimum transformed state where a robot arm is transformed such that a distance defined from a pivot axis to an arm portion, which is farthest in a radial direction relative to the pivot axis, is minimum, a minimum rotation radius R, is set to exceed 1/2 of a length B in the forward and backward directions of an interface space, the length B corresponding to a length between the front wall and the rear wall of the interface space forming portion, and is further set to be equal to or less than a subtracted value obtained by subtracting a distance L0 in the forward and backward directions from the rear wall of the interface space forming portion to the pivot axis, from the length B in the forward and backward directions of the interface space (i.e., B/2<R?B?L0).

Abstract: A wafer transfer apparatus is provided. In a minimum transformed state where a robot arm is transformed such that a distance defined from a pivot axis to an arm portion, which is farthest in a radial direction relative to the pivot axis, is minimum, a minimum rotation radius R, is set to exceed ½ of a length B in the forward and backward directions of an interface space, the length B corresponding to a length between the front wall and the rear wall of the interface space forming portion, and is further set to be equal to or less than a subtracted value obtained by subtracting a distance L0 in the forward and backward directions from the rear wall of the interface space forming portion to the pivot axis, from the length B in the forward and backward directions of the interface space (i.e., B/2<R?B?L0).