MANIPULATORS

**Definition:** This place covers:

Handling tools, devices, or machines having a gripping or work head capable of bodily movement in space and of change of orientation, such bodily movement and change of orientation being controlled, at will, by means remote from the head. The group B25J21/00 moreover covers chambers provided with manipulation devices.

Most of the manipulators classified in B25J are industrial robots.

The International Organization for Standardization gives the following definition of an industrial robot in ISO 8373:

an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator programmable in three or more axes, which may be either fixed in place or mobile for use in industrial automation applications.

This definition is used by the International Federation of Robotics, the European Robotics Research Network (EURON) and many national standards committees.

Here is a list of other types of manipulators or robots classified in B25J , i.e. manipulators which are usually not industrial robots: