INTEGRATED SOFT BAG INSPECTION SYSTEM

An integrated soft bag inspection system overcomes the difficulty of inspection associated with the unstable shape peculiar to soft bags (for example soft bags for intravenous feed use) and makes it possible to carry out inspection of soft bags automatically and with high precision. The system uses a robot having at least a robot hand and has image pickup means for picking up an image of a soft bag and grip position detecting means for detecting a position on a neck part of the soft bag to be gripped by the robot hand on the basis of image information from the image pickup means. A carrying system may be made using a plurality of such robots and carrying control means provided for controlling the robots so that the robot hand of each robot grips the neck part of the soft bag and carries the soft bag to a predetermined inspection position and soft bags arriving from a production line are continuously transferred between adjacent robots and various inspections are carried out on the soft bags successively.