ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,550, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Mantis Robotics Inc. (Danville, Calif.).
"Robot system with casing elements" was invented by Pei Jui Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Gerry Vannuffelen (Danville, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system comprising movable parts, a casing element, a force limiting sensor, a joint position sensor, and one or more processors, wherein the casing element comprises a vibration actuator. Multiple embodiments are introduced for the implementation of the casing element include haptic warning and proximity sensing. Furthermore, means to use the casing element to guide the robot and generate ha...