INDUSTRIAL ROBOT

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an industrial robot provided with a hand device capable of grasping or picking up a number of works irrespective of differences in their shapes, dimensions and heights, and capable of clamping the works with tips of its fingers aligned horizontally at the same axial heights. SOLUTION: A hand device 30 is provided with at least two fingers, which centripetally move as if to pick up the works when they are opened and closed, the operation of the robot making the hand device 30 supported at the tip of an arm 21 move by correction according to an angle θ detected by an encoder to the vertical Y-axis direction so that the tips of the respective fingers clamp the works at the same heights in the Y-axis direction. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT