ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,123, issued on March 24.
"Iterative control of robot for target object" was invented by Tatsuya Kittaka (Fukuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot control system includes circuitry to iteratively move a robot toward a task area in which the robot is to perform a task on a target object, by acquiring a first image of an observation area in a vicinity of the robot from an image sensor, calculating a probability that the observation area includes the task area based on the first image, extracting the task area from the first image based on the probability, controlling the robot to cause the robot to approach the task area, ...