Patient positioning device comprising: - a patient couch (2) which has a
lying surface (2a) for one person, - a
robot arm (3) with eight links and seven joints, which are arranged serially and alternately in a
kinematic chain of the
robot arm (3), - wherein the first link (4.1) in the
kinematic chain of the
robot arm (3) forms a base frame for attaching the robot arm (3) to a base (6), and the eighth link (4.8) in the
kinematic chain of the robot arm (3) forms a mounting
flange of a
robot hand (7) of the robot arm (3) to which the patient
bed (2) is attached, - the second link (4.2) is rotatably mounted on the first link (4.1) by means of the first joint (5.1) about a first,
vertical axis of rotation (D1), - the third link (4.3) is rotatably mounted on the second link (4.2) by means of the second joint (5.2) about a second,
vertical axis of rotation (D2), - the fourth link (4.4) is rotatably mounted on the third link (4.3) by means of the third joint (5.3) about a third,
vertical axis of rotation (D3), - the fifth link (4.5) is rotatably mounted on the fourth link (4.4) by means of the fourth joint (5.4) about a fourth,
horizontal axis of rotation (D4), - and the
robot hand (7) of the robot arm (3) is attached to the fifth segment (4.5), which
robot hand (7) includes the sixth segment (4.6), the seventh segment (4.7) and the eighth segment (4.8), as well as the fifth joint (5.5), the sixth joint (5.6) and the seventh joint (5.7) of the robot arm (3).