US Patent Issued to Hitachi on July 21 for "Robot system and robot control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,131, issued on July 21, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Robot system and robot control device" was invented by Toshiharu Sugawara (Tokyo), Toshiaki Nakamura (Tokyo), Gyanendra Nath Tripathi (Tokyo) and Shoichi Handa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system including a first robot and a second robot carrying out a coordinated operation, a first robot control device, a second robot control device, and a sensor, wherein each of the first and second robot control devices include a trajectory planning unit for planning an action, a control unit for executing the action, a collision prediction unit for predicting a colli...