US Patent Issued to Sintokogio, UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI on June 3 for "Robot and method of controlling the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,925, issued on June 3, was assigned to Sintokogio Ltd. (Aichi, Japan) and UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Robot and method of controlling the same" was invented by Yoshikane Tanaami (Nagoya, Japan), Miyuki Hayashi (Nagoya, Japan) and Yoshiyuki Noda (Kofu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot includes a robot hand, a robot arm, a force sensor, and a control device. The control device performs admittance control to determine a position of the robot hand in accordance with a force detected by the force sensor, and provides, to the robot arm, an instruction to move the robot hand to the determined position. Further, t...