ROBOT

• US 20090118865A1
• Filed: 11/05/2008
• Published: 05/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: NAKAMURA, Ryosuke, EGAWA, Saku, AMINO, Azusa, TAMAMOTO, Junichi, YANAGIMOTO, Manabu
• Application Number:
  US12/264,958
• Publication Number:
  US 20090118865A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/259
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 19/023 including video camera means

Abstract

Described herein is a robot having a camera mount that is movable along a curved surface of an upper part of the head, on a front side thereof, and two units of cameras that are mounted in the camera mount. The cameras are disposed such that the cameras are laterally separated from each other at an interval substantially equivalent to a lateral width of the head, respective extremities of the cameras are substantially flush with the front end of the head, and the cameras are positioned in close proximity of the upper end of the robot.

Claims

1. A robot comprising:

a main body;

a head installed above the main body;

a camera mount installed so as to be movable along a curved surface of an upper part of the head, on a front side thereof; and

cameras mounted in the camera mount.

2. The robot according to claim 1, wherein a horizontal axis is provided inside the head, and the camera mount is supported so as to be swingable around the horizontal axis.

3. The robot according to claim 1, wherein a design on eyes is provided at the front of the head, and the cameras are disposed so as to be positioned above the design on the eyes when the cameras are horizontally oriented.

4. The robot according to claim 1, wherein the cameras are disposed so as to be positioned substantially at the upper end of the robot when the cameras are horizontally oriented.

5. The robot according to claim 1, wherein the cameras are two units of cameras laterally separated from each other at an interval substantially equivalent to a lateral width of the head, and disposed in bilateral symmetry.

6. The robot according to claim 1, wherein the cameras are disposed such that positions of respective extremities thereof, in the direction of a back-and-forth motion of the robot, are substantially flush with the front end of the head.