Patent ID: 7394525

Claim:
A lithographic apparatus comprising: an illumination system configured to condition a radiation beam; a patterning device support constructed to support a patterning device, the patterning device placed on the patterning device support being capable of imparting the radiation beam with a pattern in its cross-section to form a patterned radiation beam; a substrate table constructed to hold a substrate; a projection system configured to project the patterned radiation beam onto a target portion of the substrate, and an exchangeable object handling apparatus comprising a single robot configured to exchange an exchangeable object with a support and a loading station, wherein said robot comprises a first holding device configured to hold an exchangeable object in a first holding position and a second holding device configured to hold an exchangeable object in a second holding position, wherein said first holding device, or said second holding device, or both said first holding device and said second holding device, has two gripping devices, each of said gripping devices configured to hold an exchangeable object; wherein a first of the two gripping devices is compatible with said loading device and a second of the two gripping devices is compatible with said support.