Abstract: A picking system includes a conveyer, a robot, a main camera, and a control device. The conveyer conveys workpieces. The robot performs a holding operation and a moving operation on the workpieces. The main camera captures the transport path of the conveyer. The control device detects the workpiece on the basis of the image captured by the main camera and instructs the robot to perform the holding operation on the detected workpiece. Moreover, the control device instructs the robot to perform the holding operation on the overlapped workpieces when the overlapping of the workpieces is detected.

Abstract: A picking system includes a conveyer, a robot, and a control device. The conveyer conveys workpieces. The robot includes a plurality of holding parts and a supporting part. The holding parts hold the workpieces. The supporting part is rotatably provided against an arm to support the plurality of holding parts. Then, the control device instructs the robot to rotate the supporting part by a predetermined amount in such a manner that the direction of the workpiece becomes a predetermined direction for each the workpiece held by the holding parts and then to place the workpiece on a predetermined place.

Abstract: A robot system according to embodiments includes a conveying device, a plurality of robots, an image capturing device, a workpiece detecting device, and a control device. The control device includes an operation instruction unit and an allocating unit. The operation instruction unit generates an operation instruction for performing a holding operation on workpieces on the basis of the detection result of the workpiece detecting device and transmits the operation instruction to the robots. The allocating unit determines which of the plurality of robots to which the operation instruction unit transmits the operation instruction on the basis of conveying situations of the workpieces obtained from the detection result of the workpiece detecting device.

Abstract: A robot according to an embodiment includes arm and a strain sensor. The strain sensor includes a piezoelectric body that has a natural frequency higher than a natural frequency of a structural material forming the arm.

Abstract: A robot system includes a robot. A robot control device is configured to control an operation of the robot, and includes a workpiece shape memory configure to store a shape of workpieces. A shape sensor is configured to detect shape information about the workpieces. A target workpiece detector is configured to detect a graspable workpiece based on the shape information detected by the shape sensor. A grasping information memory is configured to store a grasping position indicating which portion of the graspable workpiece is to be grasped by the robot. A grasping operation controller is configured to control the robot to grasp the graspable workpiece detected by the target workpiece detector and to pick the grasped workpiece. A disturbing operation controller is configured to control, if no graspable workpiece is detected by the target workpiece detector, the robot to perform a workpiece disturbing operation.

Abstract: A boom positioning device for high-position working, capable of ensuring a desired positional accuracy even in positioning a work location at the tip end of a boom from a distant place, the device comprising an imaging means (4) having a multi-axis driving unit and provided with a boom tip-end position computing means (2) for computing the position and attitude of the boom tip-end from positions of respective axes of the boom detected by a boom respective-axis-position detecting means (1) and with a distance measuring means (3) for detecting the distance from the boom tip-end position to a work object, a first boom working amount calculating means (11) for calculating, from an output from the distance measuring means (3) and an output from a measuring error judging means (10), a boom working amount up to an approach enabled area where the measuring accuracy of the distance measuring means (3) is guaranteed, and a second boom working amount calculating means (15) for calculating, from a distance from the boom

Abstract: A robot vehicle for hot-line job for transmission and distribution lines which comprises an insulating boom formed of an insulating material at a tip end stage of multiple stage booms, a base end of which is supported on an elevated work vehicle to be capable of swinging, pivoting up and down, and extending and contracting, and a frame provided on the tip end of the insulating boom, the frame mounting thereon double arm manipulators of multishaft construction for performing a distribution work, a slide device for sliding independently these right and left double arm manipulators front to rear, and lifting arms of multishaft construction having a function of lifting a heavy article, so as to allow an operator to perform remote control. An electric actuator is used for driving the double arm manipulators and the slide device, and hydraulic manipulators for driving the lifting arms.

Abstract: A boom positioning device for high-position working, capable of ensuring a desired positional accuracy even in positioning a work location at the tip end of a boom from a distant place, the device comprising an imaging means (4) having a multi-axis driving unit and provided with a boom tip-end position computing means (2) for computing the position and attitude of the boom tip-end from positions of respective axes of the boom detected by a boom respective-axis-position detecting means (1) and with a distance measuring means (3) for detecting the distance from the boom tip-end position to a work object, a first boom working amount calculating means (11) for calculating, from an output from the distance measuring means (3) and an output from a measuring error judging means (10), a boom working amount up to an approach enabled area where the measuring accuracy of the distance measuring means (3) is guaranteed, and a second boom working amount calculating means (15) for calculating, from a distance from the boom

Abstract: A robot vehicle for hot-line job for transmission and distribution lines which comprises an insulating boom formed of an insulating material at a tip end stage of multiple stage booms, a base end of which is supported on an elevated work vehicle to be capable of swinging, pivoting up and down, and extending and contracting, and a frame provided on the tip end of the insulating boom, the frame mounting thereon double arm manipulators of multishaft construction for performing a distribution work, a slide device for sliding independently these right and left double arm manipulators front to rear, and lifting arms of multishaft construction having a function of lifting a heavy article, so as to allow an operator to perform remote control. An electric actuator is used for driving the double arm manipulators and the slide device, and hydraulic manipulators for driving the lifting arms.

Abstract: A robot vehicle for hot-line job for transmission and distribution lines which comprises an insulating boom formed of an insulating material at a tip end stage of multiple stage booms, a base end of which is supported on an elevated work vehicle to be capable of swinging, pivoting up and down, and extending and contracting, and a frame provided on the tip end of the insulating boom, the frame mounting thereon double arm manipulators of multishaft construction for performing a distribution work, a slide device for sliding independently these right and left double arm manipulators front to rear, and lifting arms of multishaft construction having a function of lifting a heavy article, so as to allow an operator to perform remote control. An electric actuator is used for driving the double arm manipulators and the slide device, and hydraulic manipulators for driving the lifting arms.