ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,606, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Mantis Robotics Inc. (Danville, Calif.).
"Safety system for hand-guiding a robot" was invented by Gerry Vannuffelen (Danville, Calif.) and Pei Jui Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety system for allowing a robot having a controller and at least one movable member to be manually guided by a user includes a sensor module is disposed on a surface of the robot that comprises a user-interaction sensor that produces a sensing signal. The sensor module further includes a resilient member having an outer surface. A motion control module is adapted to move the robot through t...