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Abstract

A robot is provided, includes a hand configured to hold a workpiece, a floating unit having a tip-end part and a base-end part and having a joint configured to operate within a given operating range, the hand being attached to the tip-end part, and the tip-end part being movable with the base-end part, a robot arm is attached to the base-end part of the floating unit and configured to move the hand and the floating unit, and a control device having a robot arm controller configured to control operation of the robot arm. The robot arm controller moves the hand and the floating unit so that the hand is located at a temporary target position. The temporary target position is the hand movable to a target position by moving the tip-end part of the floating unit with the base-end part thereof, the tip-end part located at the temporary target position.

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