US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Sept. 15 for "Control device, robot system, robot control method, and robot control program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,690, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Control device, robot system, robot control method, and robot control program" was invented by Masayuki Watanabe (Kobe, Japan), Tomoki Sakuma (Kobe, Japan), Hiroki Kinoshita (Kobe, Japan), Hiroki Takahashi (Kobe, Japan), Kai Shimizu (Kobe, Japan) and Hiroki Tanaka (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller 3 includes: a force controller 36 that performs force control of moving a robot 1 in accordance with an operation force exerted on an operator 2 from a user U to apply a treatment to an object W and of moving the operator 2 in accordance w...