Abstract: Provided is a tool holder or workpiece holder (100, 200) for coupling a tool to a drive spindle of a machine tool, said holder comprising a tool holding or workpiece holding section (110, 210) on which a clamping means (111, 211) for holding the tool is arranged, and comprising a coupling section (120, 220) for coupling to a tool interface (150, 160, 250, 260) of the drive spindle of the machine tool, in which the coupling section (120, 220) is configured as suitable for coupling both to a tool interface (150, 250) for receiving tool holders or workpiece holders that comply with a first standard and to a tool interface (160, 260) for receiving tool holders or workpiece holders that comply with a second standard.

Abstract: A machine tool with work transferring mechanism 1 provided with a work transferring mechanism 8 which transfers a work 10 and receives/delivers the work 10 from/to a main spindle 3, wherein in the front-rear direction, the space inside the machine tool 1 is divided via a shutter 11 into a machining space 12 in which the main spindle 3 is arranged and a transferring space 13 in which the work transferring mechanism 8 transfers the work 10; the work transferring mechanism 8 is equipped with a work retainer 9 retaining the work 10, and a moving mechanism moving the work retainer 9; and while the work 10 attached to the main spindle 3 is being machined, the work retainer 9 is preliminarily moved by the moving mechanism to a vicinity of the main spindle 3 via the shutter 11.

Abstract: A simulation apparatus includes a machine learning device for learning a change in a machining route in machining of a workpiece. The machine learning device observes data indicating the changed machining route and data indicating a machining condition of the workpiece as a state variable, and also acquires determination data for determining whether or not a cycle time obtained by simulation using the changed machining route is appropriate, and learns by associating the machining condition of the workpiece with the change in the machining route, using the state variable and the determination data.

Abstract: A machine tool for machining workpieces has a machine frame, at least one component part which can be moved along a movement path by means of a power-operated drive unit, at least one frame part, which is connected to the machine frame and which is arranged at an end position in the movement path of the component part, and at least a first stop, via which the component part in contact with the frame part when said component part is in the end position, wherein the first stop lies outside the movement path.

Abstract: Disclosed is a machine for acquiring images (1) including: a support (10) for optical lens, on one side of the support, a light source (20), on the other side of the support, an image sensor (30) suitable for capturing at least two images of the optical lens illuminated by the light source, viewed from two different angles.

Abstract: A machine tool comprises first and second support arms, and a rigid structure which couples the first support arm to the second support arm. A first rotary drive is operable to rotate the first support arm and the rigid structure relative to each other about a first rotational reference axis, and a second rotary drive is operable to rotate the second support arm and the rigid structure relative to each other about a second rotational reference axis, wherein the first and second rotational reference axes are parallel and spaced apart by a fixed distance. A control arrangement is configured to control the first and second rotary drives such that a workpiece mount carried by the second support arm follows a predetermined path relative to a tool mount carried by the first support arm in a plane perpendicular to the rotational reference axes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a tool for cleaning rollers (2a, 2b) of machines for closing container or cans, which comprises a head (1) which is couplable to a motor and on which are mounted: rotary drive discs (14) of the rollers (2a, 2b) to be cleaned and which comprise at least one element for making contact with the rollers, to transmit traction to same; at least one actuator disc (15, 16) that has a different rotation direction and/or rotation speed to the drive discs (14), and which is provided with at least one element for cleaning the rollers (2a, 2b); and a transmission (50) disposed between the motor and the discs (14, 15, 16).

Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a first distinguishing display unit which, when a mechanism making a holding force or a processing force act on a workpiece causes an error, displays a workpiece illustration representing the workpiece to which the error is caused and on which the holding force or the processing force acts distinguishably from another workpiece illustration. The workpiece on which the holding force or the processing force of the mechanism causing the error acts can be thereby identified easily.

Abstract: A method capable of accurately detecting a polishing surface of a polishing pad using a polishing head without being influenced by passage of time is disclosed. The includes: moving a polishing head in a direction perpendicular to a polishing surface of a polishing pad while applying thrust from the polishing head to the polishing pad; during the movement of the polishing head, detecting deflection of a head arm with a strain sensor, the head arm supporting the polishing head; and determining a position of the polishing head corresponding to a point in time at which an output signal from the strain sensor reaches a preset threshold value.

Abstract: Described are abrasive surfaces and pad conditioners that contain high precision shaped surfaces, including pad conditioners useful for conditioning a chemical-mechanical processing (CMP) pad, and related methods.

Abstract: A dust collection device for use with a power tool includes a housing, an air inlet pipe, a cyclone pipe, an air duct pipe, and a ventilation pipe. The air inlet pipe is configured to guide an airflow to enter the dust collection device along a first straight line. The cyclone pipe extends along the second straight line. The cyclone pipe has a first end for air intake and a second end for dust discharge. The ventilation pipe is arranged at the first end and communicated with the cyclone pipe and is configured to guide the airflow after the airflow is subjected to dust separation performed by the cyclone pipe out of the housing. The second straight line along which the cyclone pipe extends intersects the first straight line to form an angle greater than or equal to 25° and less than or equal to 90°.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a resin composition for an abrasive tool and an abrasive tool made of the resin composition. The resin composition for an abrasive tool has high heat resistance and excellent processability, and thus enables the preparation of an abrasive tool exhibiting improved heat resistance and durability.

Abstract: An abrasive article is disclosed and can include a core comprising a polymer material. The core can include an upper surface, an outer peripheral surface, an upper recessed portion extending into the core from the upper surface and a peripheral recess extending into the outer peripheral surface. The abrasive article can also include a bonded abrasive body disposed within the peripheral recess of the outer peripheral surface of the core and a cover plate having an upper surface. The cover plate can fit into the upper recessed portion of the upper surface the core so that the upper surface of the cover plate is substantially coplanar with the upper surface of the core.

Abstract: A method of transferring a shaped particle to a substrate includes providing a scrim of at least two elongate strands periodically joined together at flexible bond regions to form an array of apertures between the strands. The scrim is extended along at least one direction to increase the minimum dimension of the apertures. Shaped particles are applied to the extended scrim and at least a portion of the shaped particles enter in at least some of the apertures therein. The extended scrim is relaxed and frictionally retains the particles between the elongate strands. The particle loaded scrim is extended along at least one direction to release and transfer the shaped particles to the substrate in a predetermined orientation.

Abstract: A pliers is provided, including a main body, a slidable member, a swingable assembly and a clamp assembly. The slidable assembly is attached to the main body. The swingable assembly includes a swingable member and a connecting member, and the swingable member is pivoted to one of two ends of the slidable member and one of two ends of the connecting member. The clamp assembly includes a firs clamp portion and a second clamp portion, and the first clamp portion is disposed on the slidable member.

Abstract: Universal pliers contains: a first jaw, a second jaw, a first lever, a second lever, and a connection extension. The first jaw and the second jaw are rotatably connected, the first lever is one-piece formed on the first jaw, the second lever is rotatably connected on the second jaw, a first end of the actuation extension is rotatably connected on the second lever, a second end of the actuation extension is rotatably connected in the first lever, and the actuation extension includes a bending section. The first lever includes a slide block and a spring which are accommodated on the first lever, a first side of the slide block abuts against the actuation extension, a first end of the spring is biased against a second side of the slide block, and a bottom of the first lever is screwed with a screw bolt which contacts with the spring.

Abstract: A power wrench includes an output spindle and a socket member. The output spindle has an axial through hole that extends through the output spindle and that open at two axially opposite ends of the output spindle. The socket member is connected to one of the axially opposite ends and has a first socket hole aligned with the axial through hole and configured to engage a nut or the like. The axial through hole is configured to permit passage of a bolt when the nut is tightened by the socket member.

Abstract: A magazine is configured to be removably coupled to a power tool housing of a power tool. The magazine has a housing configured to be rotatably attachable to the power tool housing. An advancing mechanism is received in the magazine housing, and is configured to advance a strip of collated fasteners into position to be driven by the power tool. An indexing ring has a plurality of recesses and is configured to be non-rotatably attached to the power tool housing. A detent is biased to removably engage one of the plurality of recesses, and is configured to be non-rotatably attached to the magazine housing. The detent removably engages the recesses to allow for indexed tool-free rotation of the magazine housing relative to the power tool housing.

Abstract: A tool and method of securing a clamp is provided. The tool includes a first handle having a first jaw portion on one end. An arm is pivotally coupled to the first handle, the having a second jaw portion on one end. A second handle is adjacent the first handle. A force adjustment mechanism is rotatably coupled between the arm and the second handle. The force adjustment mechanism has a biasing member operably coupled between the arm and an adjustment member, the force adjustment mechanism further having at least one bearing member disposed between the arm and the adjustment member. The second handle is arranged to rotate relative to the arm based at least in part on a force applied on the second handle by the biasing member via the at least one bearing member.

Abstract: A stapler includes an elongated channel body pivotably attached to a base, and an elongated magazine track coaxially disposed in and movable relative to a channel of the channel body in a front-and-rear direction between first and second positions. One of the channel body and the magazine track has a bottom wall on which a resilient damping member is disposed, while the other one thereof has a bottom wall which is formed with a frictionless segment, a friction-increasing segment and a stop segment. A friction end of the damping member is disposed at the frictionless segment in the first position, and is slidably moved on and frictionally engaged with the friction-increasing segment and stopped on the stop segment in the second position.

Abstract: This percussion apparatus includes a body; a tool including a mounting portion slidably mounted in the body; and a striking piston mounted so as to be alternately displaced within the body and configured to strike the mounting portion. The mounting portion of the tool includes an annular retaining rib including a first bearing surface configured to cooperate with a first stop surface provided on the body so as to limit the displacement stroke of the tool towards the striking piston, and a second bearing surface opposite to the first bearing surface and configured to cooperate with a second stop surface provided on the body so as to limit the displacement stroke of the tool opposite to the striking piston and to retain the mounting portion of the tool in the body.

Abstract: A reciprocating tool includes: a motor; a gear case; a converting mechanism; a plunger; a sealing member; and an auxiliary sealing member. The converting mechanism is accommodated in the gear case and configured to convert rotating motion of the motor into reciprocating movement in a predetermined direction. The plunger is provided with a mounting portion on which an end bit is mountable, and is reciprocally movably supported to the gear case. The plunger is driven by the converting mechanism to reciprocally move in the predetermined direction. The plunger is reciprocally movably inserted into the sealing member in the predetermined direction. The sealing member is supported by the gear case. The auxiliary sealing member is supported by the sealing member and sealing an outer peripheral surface of the plunger.

Abstract: A method, system, apparatus, and/or device for storing and organizing objects in a container. The method, system, apparatus, and/or device may include an insert panel configured to hold an object. The insert panel may include a first clamp cavity including a first opening configured to receive a first clamp post of a modular attachment assembly and a second clamp cavity including a second opening configured to receive a second clamp post of the modular attachment assembly. The method, system, apparatus, and/or device may include the modular attachment assembly configured to hold the object against the insert panel. The modular attachment assembly may include the first clamp post, a second clamp post, and a cord having a first end connected to the first clamp post and a second end connected to the second clamp post.

Abstract: An alignment screw. The alignment screw includes a body having a cylinder shape with a first end opposite a second end. The first end includes a male threaded portion. The second end includes a marking tip configured to mark a surface when the marking tip is pushed against the surface.

Abstract: A method for operating a multi-agent system that includes multiple robots, each of the robots cyclically performing the following: starting from an instantaneous system state, ascertaining possible options, the options defining actions by which a transition may be achieved from an instantaneous system state to a subsequent system state; for each of the possible options, ascertaining action costs for performing an action specified by the option; performing an auction, the action costs values ascertained for each option being taken into consideration by each of the other robots; and performing an action, which corresponds to one of the options, as a function of all cost values ascertained or received for the relevant option, the action costs for a particular option each taking an experience parameter into consideration, which is a function of costs for past actions assigned to the particular option previously carried out by the multiple robots.

Abstract: A bionic robot and a spine apparatus thereof. Magnetorheological fluids are filled in the cavity, the first tube and the second tube to actuate the first end of the piston rod, so that the piston rod is actuated to move along the axial direction of the cavity. The excitation coil is wound around the first tube. When the controller provides a variable current for the excitation coil, the excitation coil produces a variable magnetic field at the first tube, thereby causing a magnetorheological effect that the magnetorheological fluid is in low liquidity and high viscosity. Then, the transmission speed of the piston rod is changed, which is presented as a damping characteristic, reducing the pause and transition in the spine apparatus, and improving the flexibility and the bionic performance of the robot.

Abstract: An operation device includes operation input circuitry that operates a robot having a leading end and a multi-articular arm that changes a position and a posture of the leading end, a device posture sensor that detects a posture of the operation input circuitry in a first coordinate system for controlling the robot, and processing circuitry that rotates a second coordinate system rotatable relative to the first coordinate system based on the posture of the operation input device, generates motion command for the leading end of the robot in the second coordinate system based on input operation into the operation input circuitry, converts the motion command into a first-coordinate-system motion command for the leading end of the robot in the first coordinate system, outputs the first-coordinate-system motion command for controlling the robot based on the first-coordinate-system motion command, and regulates rotation of the second coordinate system about at least one axis.

Abstract: A cluster control method, a cluster control system, and a terminal device are provided. The method includes: assigning, by a first control terminal, cluster identifications to itself and controlled terminals; sending, by the first control terminal, control instructions to corresponding controlled terminals and/or itself according to the assigned IDs when the first control terminal receives information feedbacked by all the controlled terminals and itself and denoting that ID assignments succeed, wherein the control instructions instruct the corresponding controlled terminals and/or itself to perform corresponding actions.

Abstract: An operation device includes operation input circuitry that receives instructions for operating robot having leading end and arm that changes position and posture of the end, and processing circuitry that outputs, to the input circuitry, operation image by which instruction for motion command for the end is input, detects posture of the input circuitry in first coordinate system, rotates second coordinate system relative to the first system based on the posture of the input circuitry, converts the command into first-coordinate-system command, and outputs the first-coordinate-system command based on the first-coordinate-system command.

Abstract: A holding apparatus includes a first detection unit configured to detect an indicated holding object, a second detection unit configured to detect, when the first detection unit detects the holding object, a tag proximate to the holding object, and a holding part configured to hold a container provided with the tag based on tag information of the tag detected by the second detection unit.

Abstract: Systems and methods related to providing configurations of robotic devices are provided. A computing device can receive a configuration request for a robotic device including environmental information and task information for tasks requested to be performed by the robotic device in an environment. The computing device can determine task-associated regions in the environment. A task-associated region for a given task can include a region of the environment that the robotic device is expected to reach while performing the given task. Based at least on the task-associated regions, the computing device can determine respective dimensions of components of the robotic device and an arrangement for assembling the components into the robotic device so that the robotic device is configured to perform at least one task in the environment. The computing device can provide a configuration that includes the respectively determined dimensions and the determined arrangement.

Abstract: A robot system is provided with a robot, a hand, and a range sensor that acquires information about a distance to a workpiece. Claw parts of the hand include grip regions having a shape for gripping the workpiece. A controller stops the robot when the hand collides with the workpiece. The controller determines whether or not a target workpiece can be gripped by a part other than the grip regions of the hand. When it is determined that the target workpiece can be gripped by the part other than the grip regions, the controller performs control for gripping the target workpiece by using the hand, and for moving the target workpiece inside a container.

Abstract: An interference determination apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires region information indicating regions set in a configuration space in which the angles of rotation of two or three specific joints of an articulated robot are indicated by coordinate axes, the regions including an interference region in which the robot is determined to interfere with itself or an obstacle based on the magnitudes of the angles of rotation of the specific joints, and a non-interference region in which the robot is determined to not interfere with itself or an obstacle based on the magnitudes of the angles of rotation of specific joints; and a determination unit that determines whether the robot interferes with itself or an obstacle, by determining whether coordinates indicating a posture determined by the angles of rotation of the specific joints belong to the interference region or the non-interference region indicated by the acquired region information.

Abstract: Provided is a computer-assisted method for ascertaining a movement of an apparatus, which has a tool that is movable by way of translational and/or rotational axes of movement of the apparatus, includes the following method steps: a first movement trajectory of the tool is ascertained in a first configuration space. A predetermined parameter of a movement of the tool is optimized when ascertaining the first movement trajectory. A check is carried out as to whether the first movement trajectory satisfies at least one predetermined first boundary condition. A second movement trajectory of the tool in a second configuration space is ascertained by transforming the first movement trajectory into the second configuration space if the first movement trajectory satisfies the predetermined first boundary condition. A check is carried out as to whether the second movement trajectory satisfies at least one predetermined second boundary condition.

Abstract: In the field of robot technologies, a robot control method and apparatus are for protecting safety of a human during interaction between the human and a robot. The method includes: detecting a current location of the human; determining at least two regions surrounding the human according to the detected current location; and controlling movement of the robot in any region of the at least two regions, to protect safety of the human during interaction with the robot. Because the region is set surrounding the human, movement of the human does not affect the interaction between the human and the robot. In addition, using a protected object as a target, the robot is controlled to move in regions that surround the human. Compared with a case in which the robot is limited in fixed space, no matter how the human moves, safety of the human may be effectively protected.

Abstract: A method includes receiving first and second coordinated paths for first and second robotic devices. The first coordinated path comprises a dependency edge indicating a first position on the first coordinated path and a second position on the second coordinated path. The method also includes determining a first traversable portion extending to a first stopping position before or at the first position on the first coordinated path. The method also includes providing a first instruction to the first robotic device to traverse the first traversable portion; subsequently determining that the second robotic device has passed the second position on the second coordinated path; determining a second traversable portion of the first coordinated path extending to a second stopping position beyond the first position on the first coordinated path; and providing a second instruction to the first robotic device to traverse the second traversable portion.

Abstract: This robot system includes a robot, and a controller which sets an operation limitation area for limiting operations of the robot, and the controller resets the operation limitation area by using at least one of information about a floor surface where an object person conducts tasks at a surrounding area of the robot, information about a structure with which the object person may come into contact, information about a non-target object who exists in a vicinity of the object person, and information about another robot which exists in a vicinity of the object person.

Abstract: An example method may include i) detecting a disturbance to a gait of a robot, where the gait includes a swing state and a step down state, the swing state including a target swing trajectory for a foot of the robot, and where the target swing trajectory includes a beginning and an end; and ii) based on the detected disturbance, causing the foot of the robot to enter the step down state before the foot reaches the end of the target swing trajectory.

Abstract: A robot system includes an arm with a plurality of joints, the arm being configured to assume a first position and a second position, an end effector attached to the arm, the end effector having a specific position, and a force detector configured to detect a force or a torque applied to or generated by the arm or the end effector, and a robot control apparatus configured to receive an output value from the force detector to change the arm from the first position to the second position while the end effector remains in the specific position, and store the second position of the arm in a memory so as to relate the second position of the arm with the specific position of the end effector.

Abstract: A controller includes a generation unit that generates three-dimensional information, a deletion unit that deletes information about at least part of the measurement points in the three-dimensional information, and a determination unit that determines a state where the robot grips a workpiece. The generation unit generates first three-dimensional information before the robot implements an operation of gripping a target workpiece. The generation unit generates second three-dimensional information after the robot has implemented an operation of lifting the target workpiece. The deletion unit generates third three-dimensional information in which information about measurement points in the second three-dimensional information is deleted from the first three-dimensional information. The determination unit determines whether or not the workpiece in the third three-dimensional information matches the target workpiece.

Abstract: A robot according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a user interface unit configured to receive an input from a user; an object recognition unit configured to sense a human body and an object; a position recognition unit configured to sense positions of the human body and the object; a driving driver configured to control movement of the robot; and a controller configured to control an operation of the robot, wherein the controller is configured to perform control such that: when the human body is detected within a predetermined first range by the robot, the robot is woken up and a touch monitor included in the user interface unit is turned on, and when the human body is detected within a predetermined second range by the robot, content for receiving an input from the user is output on the touch monitor.

Abstract: A grinding package fitted on robotic arm includes a main body, a pneumatic motor, a bridging part and a grinding tool. The main body is formed with a first space, a second space, a communicating hole communicating the first space to the second space, a connecting wall within the first space, an intake channel, an exhaust channel, openings of the first space and the second space respectively located on each of two parallel sides of the main body, the connecting wall having a ventilation hole. The pneumatic motor includes a motor body within the first space, and a transmission shaft connected to the motor body while extended from the second space through the communicating hole. The bridging part is combined with the main body and the robotic arm, the bridging part closing off the first space, the grinding tool facing the second space and being joined to the transmission shaft.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for selecting an initial point for industrial robot commissioning, the initial point being located above a touchscreen for industrial robot commissioning. The method including: calculating a nominal posture of a work object relative to the industrial robot by a nominal posture calculating module; and selecting an initial point according to the nominal posture by an initial point selecting module. The method and apparatus can automatically select the initial point so as to further increase automation of the commissioning process and reduce workloads.

Abstract: A system and method utilizing a robotic arm to prepare a food product such as a meat for cooking and then subsequently assembling a sandwich from the cooked meat is disclosed. In addition, the robotic arm may also be used to wrap the assembled sandwich in a wrapper. The system may utilize a wire basket with a basket adapter, or handle, to allow the robotic arm to easily maneuver the basket and also utilize a wrapping assist device to wrap a wrapper around the assembled sandwich.

Abstract: A gripping device includes a rotating member having a pinion and rotating about a center axis of the pinion, a drive piezoelectric unit having a vibrating portion that vibrates with expansion and contraction of a piezoelectric material, and a convex portion provided in the vibrating portion, being in contact with the rotating member, and transmitting vibration of the vibrating portion to the rotating member, a rack meshing with the pinion and moving with rotation of the pinion, and a gripping part coupled to the rack, wherein a contact portion in which the convex portion and the rotating member are in contact is located outside of an outer circumference of the pinion in a plan view from a direction of a rotation axis of the rotating member.

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 apparatus for providing haptic guidance during manipulation of an end-effector includes a robotic arm. The robotic arm has at least one actuated joint, at least one other joint connected to the at least one actuated joint, and a physical constraint movable by actuation of the at least one actuated joint. The physical constraint limits the motion of the at least one other joint in at least one direction. The apparatus further includes an end-effector configured to be manipulated by an application of external forces and connected to the at least one other joint.

Abstract: A utility knife includes a housing with multiple interior spaces, each for holding a utility blade slidably therein. A U-shaped spring-clip has two ends rotationally fixed with the housing. A catch section of the spring clip traverses a retention slot formed in the housing. The spring clip may be pushed from an inward position into an outward position to allow the utility blade to pass from the interior space out through a slot to exit an end of the housing. When the spring clip is released with a retaining notch of the utility blade aligned with the retention slot, the retaining clip engages the retaining notch to capture the utility blade in a deployed position. Preferably the housing comprises several thin metal plates stacked together and fastened with a plurality of mechanical fasteners.

Abstract: A cutting device is disclosed. The cutting device has a first body assembly having a first blade portion formed from a first non-magnetic material and a first handle portion formed from a second non-magnetic material. The cutting device also has a second body assembly having a second blade portion formed from the first non-magnetic material and a second handle portion formed from the second non-magnetic material. The cutting device further has a fastener formed from a third non-magnetic material, the fastener rotatably attaching the first body assembly to the second body assembly. The cutting device also has a cover assembly formed from the second non-magnetic material, the cover assembly covering the fastener. The first non-magnetic material and the second non-magnetic material are electrically non-conductive materials.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cleaning and charging station for an electrically driven device. The station comprising an outer housing with a base portion and a gallows structure extending from the base portion. The base portion comprises a cleaning chamber for at least partially receiving the electrically driven device and the gallows structure comprises a charging terminal for charging the electrically driven device. The station further comprises a circuit board mounted within the housing and connected to the charging terminal. The circuit board is located in the gallows structure at a position spaced from the cleaning chamber.