Abstract
No assignee for this patent application has been made.News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:““The present disclosure relates to a gripping device, a robot, and a control met hod for a grippingdevice.“Robots having gripping devices that grip objects in various kinds of work are u tilized. The objectsdesired to be gripped by the gripping devices widely vary. Accordingly, a technique of recognizing a shapeof an object desired to be gripp ed by a camera and determining a gripping motion according to the shapeof the o bject is proposed. However, the technique using the camera requires vast amounts of calculationsfor recognition of the object and the apparatus may be complex and the cost may be higher.