Abstract
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors: “The invention relates to tool coupling devices for couplin g tools to the robot arm of a robot, and to tool coupling device sets comprising such tool coupling devices.Furthermore, the invention also relates to a robot having such a tool coupling device and to a manufacturing or handling system hav ing a plurality of robots with tool coupling devices.“Known tool coupling devices are used in order to be able to change tools quickl y and with little effort, i.e.to be able to separate them from a robot arm of a n industrial robot in order to be able to subsequently couple and lock another t ool to the robot arm or to attach the separated tool to a robot arm of another r obot.