Patent ID: 8672604

Claim:
An industrial robot comprising: a hand on which a workpiece is placed; an arm that is provided with a rotatable rotary joint; an up-down moving mechanism connected to the arm by a support member; a pedestal provided at a lower portion of the up-down moving mechanism, the pedestal including a stopper arm having a stopper provided at a tip end of the stopper arm; a base configured to rotatably support the pedestal about a center axis; a carriage configured to support the base and configured to move in a moving direction; and a pendulum stopper provided on the base, the pendulum stopper includes a pendulum configured to contact the stopper to regulate rotation of the pedestal on the base, wherein the pendulum is configured to pivot about a swing axis that is parallel to the center axis, and wherein the swing axis and the center axis are aligned along the moving direction of the carriage.