ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,664, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan).
"Robot control device and robot system" was invented by Naoki Ito (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This robot control device capable of controlling a robot according to a lead-through control in which the orientation of the robot is varied in accordance with the magnitude and the direction of forces detected by a force sensor provided in the robot, wherein the robot control device: identifies a first state in which an additional device is installed at a distal end of a wrist of the robot, and a second state in which the additional device i...