US Patent Issued to CANON on Feb. 3 for "Robot system, method of controlling the robot system, recording medium, method of teaching the robot system, and method of manufacturing products" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,600, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Robot system, method of controlling the robot system, recording medium, method of teaching the robot system, and method of manufacturing products" was invented by Masakazu Takahashi (Tokyo) and Hideki Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system includes a robot and a control portion. The robot includes a contact detection portion configured to output a signal in accordance with contact performed by a user. The control portion is configured to control resistance of the robot applied to the user when the user moves the robot, in accordance with a num...