Patent ID: 8240973

Claim:
A palletizing robot, comprising: at least one rotatable pallet; a crane comprising: a rotary base; a lifting frame fixed on the rotary base, the lifting frame comprising a base plate fixed on the rotary base, a top plate, and two lifting plates interconnecting with the base plate and the top plate; the two lifting plates disposed apart and opposite to each other; each of the two lifting plates defining a pair of sliding guides at an inner surface facing the other lifting plate; and an extensible mechanical hand slidably engaged to the lifting frame to grasp a good, the extensible mechanical hand comprising a fixing portion, a pair of sliding blocks fixed to two opposite surfaces at a proximal end of the fixing portion, an extension portion movably sleeved in a distal end of the fixing portion, a holding member fixed to an end of the extension portion away from the fixing portion, and a lift disposed on the fixing portion to drive the pair of sliding blocks to slide relative to the lifting frame; each sliding block defining a pair of sliding grooves engaged with a corresponding pair of sliding guides of the two lifting plate; and a controller controlling the crane and the at least one rotatable pallet to cooperatively stack the goods on the rotatable pallet, and controlling the at least one rotatable pallet to rotate itself to package the stacked goods thereon.