Patent ID: 7706918
Filing Date: 2010-04-27
Classification: B25J

Abstract:
1. A robot comprising: a recognizing device for recognizing a condition of a holding object in a living space; a tag reader for obtaining ID information of the object stored in an electronic tag attached to the object; a holding method database for storing different article holding methods according to conditions of the holding object, in association with the ID information; an article holding method specifying means for specifying one article holding method out of different article holding methods, according to the ID information obtained by the tag reader and a form of the object as the condition recognized by the recognizing device; and a holding device for holding the holding object according to the article holding method specified by the article holding method specifying means, wherein article holding methods for a plurality of different holding objects as the holding object are stored in the holding method database, the different holding objects are articles having same article ID information and having different forms of temperature or content, and the article holding methods are stored so that the holding method differs as the form of the article changes.